Re: Any chance at NA release?
It's likely less of a region thing, and more of a time-zone problem.
AFAIK, the game does not throw NA players to the back of the queue or anything, thus everyone has an equal chance.
Since your timezone is probably close to CST (-6), my recommendation is to check out early afternoon (noon-3 or 4 PM) or late at night (3 AM) when the Russian players are on.
Several of us members here are actively pushing for North American players (videos/twitter/streams). I'm under the impression that soon enough Panzar will start pushing advertisements.
Which we want.