why thank you
We were started by an exchange student from MIT who was studying at Cambridge University (our team is based in Cambridge). He was really into FIRST and wanted to start a team here.
There are a few technical issues to overcome such as shipping (it took 3 months to ship last year's robot back from the US last year). But the rest of the problems were similar to starting a rookie team in the US - the team had very little experience and had no idea where to start. All this requires is that there is someone such as yourself who has some experience of the process in previous years.
Professional engineers to give pointers here and there are obviously a great help also.
Being the only FIRST team for 3000 miles can be a bit daunting but if you keep you keep calm and stick to what you are doing, not comparing yourself with anyone else, you'll do just fine.
Like useless member says "GO FOR IT", take FIRST to another continent. Maybe in a few years time there will be an Australian regional...