The FTT competition, formally known as the Chinese Angling TV Live Elite Tournament, holds a status in competitive fishing that surpasses ordinary four-category regional national competitions as an official national-level event.

Compared to ordinary four-category competitions, FTT's rules are more complex and require a very high level of comprehensive skills from the anglers. While there's a significant element of luck in ordinary four-category competitions, virtually none of the FTT champions are flukes.

Why is that? The competition is divided into five phases, and only in the first phase, during the 168 to 32 progression, does the fishing spot play some role. From the second phase onwards, same group angler PK rules, changing fishing spots in sectional competitions, etc., all serve to minimize randomness.

Besides the rules ensuring fair competition, there's another significant feature — the tournament uses public bait.

What is public bait? It's quite simple. All bait used throughout the tournament is provided by designated brand sponsors. Anglers can choose and make slight adjustments to the state of the public bait provided, significantly putting them all on the same starting line regarding bait quality.

In short, the FTT competition is a large-scale television live broadcast event organized by the Chinese Fishing Sports Association, Happy Angling Channel, and local government sports and culture guidance centers for the station competition, with top brand fishing gear companies sponsoring. Winning a championship in such an event, even a station championship, is enough to prove one's strength.

Apart from traditional media TV broadcasts that can bring fame to the champion angler, the FTT competition also boasts a substantial prize pool, with station championship prizes as high as 150,000, and an annual grand finale prize reaching an impressive million-level.

Among the existing national-level top competitions, the FTT's prestige is only second to the Guangwei Fishing King Cup; it is one of the best opportunities for competitive anglers to prove their strength and make a name for themselves.

The scene shifts back to Zhang Yang.

Upon receiving a phone message, Zhang Yang immediately drove to the club's training base, where Han Mocheng and the other team members were already waiting in the conference room.

Zhang Yang entered the room, closed the door, and took a seat at the head of the conference table.

"Alright, now that everyone's here, Captain Han, distribute the materials! Let's give everyone a brief overview of the FTT's situation before we set off, so everyone has a basic concept!"

Han Mocheng nodded, distributing the printed competition rule details to everyone.

Zhang Yang also received a copy and casually glanced over it before looking up.

In his past life, Zhang Yang had also participated in this competition. Back then, his technical skills hadn't reached the top level yet, and he only ranked in the twenties, missing out on the grand finale.

He was well familiar with the competition arrangements, so reviewing the rules was just a formality for him.

After everyone finished carefully reviewing the material for five minutes, Zhang Yang began to speak: "FTT's rules are much stricter than those of ordinary four-category competitions. One key aspect affecting everyone is that this competition requires all anglers to use public bait.

The brand sponsor is the Hua Clan. I won't elaborate on Hua Clan's bait, as you are all quite familiar with it. Once we are settled at the venue, I will revisit the details of each bait product with everyone!

Before we set off, I want to emphasize a few points!

First, let's treat the Quancheng Station competition primarily as training.

Your current skill levels have almost reached the qualifying line of a Professional Competitive Angler. So long as our strategies are well-planned and fundamentals solid, coupled with swift adaptability during the competition, achieving some results isn't impossible!

Therefore, don't be too indifferent in your attitude. Those so-called competitive experts, when truly sitting at the PK stage for a one-on-one PK, aren't necessarily much better than you!

Secondly, recent subpar results in four-category competitions might have affected morale. After several months of rigorous training, I believe your confidence should be restored! 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

This time around, I will personally oversee the bait, arrange the competition tactics, and you all just need to demonstrate 100% enthusiasm.

Thirdly, the competition schedule spans three days. Including advance registration and venue inspection, it's four and a half days. During this time, nobody is allowed to leave freely, even if eliminated during the competition. Seize this rare learning opportunity.

We have an additional advantage over ordinary anglers — facing the camera during fishing broadcasts, you're much more relaxed, which becomes crucial in later PK competitions for maintaining a calm mindset!

Alright, those are the points I wanted to emphasize. Does anyone have questions? Feel free to ask them now!"

As soon as Zhang Yang finished speaking, Xiaobao raised his hand: "Boss, when does the FTT competition start broadcasting on TV? I've never been on TV!"

Zhang Yang nodded and replied: "If you're a top domestic competitive angler, there might be footage even before the first round of events,

but the official debut starts from the round of 32. Later, every match will have airing opportunities on the Happy Angling Channel!

Once you make the top eight, every match will be broadcast live by professional multi-camera teams! They'll have professional commentators and hosts!

Well, how should I put it? You all know Yoyo, Rock Brother's girlfriend, right? Before switching to our company, she was a host on Happy Angling Channel!"