7 Australians is an understatement, There are plenty of Australian players whom are interested/playing.
The reality is it's not the high-pingers fault for wanting a fair-game with a 1server, We also want a fair experience and had even mentioned centralizing the server for everyone which in term would reduce our overall ping.
SV just seems confident in keeping their assets/servers in EU.
The blame is not on the high-pingers but squarely on SV and their pipe-dream of 1server in a location that is not fair for others.
I honestly laughed reading this. No one is saying it's any single country of people's fault, just that the idea BEHIND IT is so laughably bad.
A game shouldn't be balanced and made to work for someone who has 250 to 300 ping in a game. It's just so stupid and pointless. You say 'fair game' but the fact the game suffers as a whole, no one wins. AU players just get a sub-par product and still have ping issues, just like everyone else not in the EU.. except they also get to live with the sub-par product.
At this point being an NA player I wouldn't be happy having the single server be in NA, because the game would still have so many issues with it which others including NA players will still have to deal with.