I remember that in the late 90ies/early 2000 that swedes or scandinavians always had these super low ping internet connections. Combine that with a long winter

I remember that in the late 90ies/early 2000 that swedes or scandinavians always had these super low ping internet connections. Combine that with a long winter and you have a lot of tech experienced youngsters that spend a lot of time on projects (in this case gaming). They did (and still do) extremely way in esports in relation to the size of the population.