Just representing my 'hood real quick:
I'm from New York City. None of my friends (windows users) had heard of Nexuiz until I told them. Most of them are addicted to popular console games like Halo or MMORPG's like WoW. No one bit at Nexuiz.
I originally discovered Nexuiz on the Apple website from the games downloads page.
It took me a long time of playing Nexuiz to realize that it was more of a European thing than American.
I never search for servers by ping. Instead I search by player count. It just so happens the first server I played on (and grew to like) was Fusion. Good server. I have played with Mr. Carlyle. He is awesome.
Recently I have been playing on Beckstein vs Sobersomething (I never took the time to actually read the words) I assume this is not an American server, though I either experience very little lag or just have a nice connection.
I have stuck around playing Nexuiz because it is fun. I play the less stressful CTF games. I look up to players like Mr. Carlyle and Xeno the Blind, etc. who are very skillful players with a lot of knowledge about the game. They fill me in little by little, particularly Xeno and Shaggy, though I don't play favorites

, and eventually I hope to become a good enough player to hold my own against them.
I think Nexuiz is great, and although my efforts to get the friends I've talked with to start playing have failed, I have not given up.
Happy Fourth of July (an American holiday).
