I feel like you've been "ready to move to the regionals" for like a year now. I have seen a lot of your posts to this effect for quite a while now.

Why not just go to the interviews and ask these questions? If you are still 6 months away guess what, the answers are going to be different than they are today. Get your time, go to the interview, ask the pertinent questions.

I don't wanna knock you for doing research and making a good decision but at some point you actually ARE going to have to make a decision instead of getting skewed answers on this website.