Think of it as a disease. FIRST (disease) started from USA and now its spreading across the world.
15 years ago, FIRST was only hand full of teams. But now it consist of more than 1500 teams. There are a lot of teams out there who are trying to start teams internationally.
Not to mention that the FLL teams of today, will soon rise to be FRC teams in future....
seriously I'm waiting for the time when my grand children will be part of different FIRST teams, fighting against each other
