The only reason you'd need to compete in regionals is to raise your driver grade. Higher driver grades get preference at Nationals - so if you've not raced before you'll automatically be the lowest grade which is F5. Getting into a National event with an F5 grading used to be easy - but bigger numbers racing now mean it's very hard to get a place.
You don't need to race regionals to do nationals - but it helps.
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