I should’ve put more thought into this section. I now realize I was mainly basing my claim on my experience with Czech EA, where almost no one has experience with university groups, and the fact that there are basically no national groups in the US/UK regions (only city groups).
National groups can definitely play the role of regional groups in many places extremely well, I just don’t think it’s a requirement to have one to coordinate as uni groups on the regional level.
I should’ve put more thought into this section. I now realize I was mainly basing my claim on my experience with Czech EA, where almost no one has experience with university groups, and the fact that there are basically no national groups in the US/UK regions (only city groups).
National groups can definitely play the role of regional groups in many places extremely well, I just don’t think it’s a requirement to have one to coordinate as uni groups on the regional level.