Welcome to US servers
@jgeisler98!
I would underline everything that
@hnuisqt said, but a bit harshly. Yes you will find some great people on US worlds and you'll probably have better chances to compete for the crown if you get into the right crowd but you will find less resistance since there are 2 groups at most that are fighting for the win. On EN worlds there are multiple competitors, which was the case on US like 5 years ago.
It goes like this - whenever a world starts there are 4-5 groups that could promise a decent fight. Right after BP ends, stronger groups will devour weaker ones and in week 2 you'll end up seeing only 2 groups remaining. At the end of the first month, one group will prevail and win the world months before it ends. Just take a look at Grepodata or Grepolife on last 5-6 worlds that are still open, you'll see one dominant group on each world.
If you don't win this time, you can win the next world. It's how it goes. Honestly more and more people are looking towards EN worlds because the competition is what we seek. After winning several worlds in a 2nd gear we are all pretty much fed up.
I might be wrong on this but it appears that Inno doesn't care about US servers and we are not bringing that much money to them as we think. This branch might be terminated and from what I can see in past several years - it looks like they are doing just that. We don't have a strong community and we don't have a say in pretty much anything that happens on these worlds. For example, if we want revolt world - CQ will appear, and vice versa.
I have more inactive & retired players on my Discord/Skype list than active ones. Whenever I tell them about new worlds they are just not interested about wasting their time seeing all the things I said above all over again. However, I never advertised EN worlds to them before... That might be another thing. Let's face it, EN worlds are paying for their salaries and US worlds are like an allowance to spend on your vacation.
After my unsuccessful attempt to make an impact here, I personally gave up. I saw no other players trying to step up, most of them are silent and are approving your acts through "likes", while the other ones are trying to drag you down into the mud. You'll see both of these groups right after this post... I know they're coming lol.