Like Matt my first event was the 2014 FW champs, i took the first version of Hatchet and it was absolutely awful but i learned so much and came back the following year with a really solid machine. There's a tonne of useful info on this forum and there's people willing to help at every stage, i'd say just go for it, build something simple and strong and you will learn a huge amount of the course of just a few days.
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