With Xiaowei's warm-up and guidance, a pudgy middle-aged man in his fifties quickly walked onto the stage.

The etiquette lady handed over the microphone, and the local leader began the closing remarks.

As for leadership speeches, the routine is pretty much the same—nothing but various official jargon without much substance, yet it can't be skipped. The audience below fiddled with their phones, listening half-heartedly.

In a matter of minutes, the speech was completed, and scattered applause sounded from the audience.

YOYO took over the situation, continuing the event: "Thank you, Mayor Wen, for the wonderful speech. Next, we have Mr. Liu Xingyun, a representative from Kuaishou's official team, to give everyone a brief summary! Please welcome Mr. Liu Xingyun!"

Upon hearing YOYO's call, Liu Xingyun, who was already prepared backstage, strode onto the stage.

Unlike the city leaders who read from a script, Liu Xingyun came empty-handed, speaking off the cuff. To say the least, Old Liu's capability is quite impressive.

"Hello everyone, I am Liu Xingyun, the chief planner and executive director of this Kuaishou Fishing Carnival! I'm delighted to meet everyone here!

Those participating in this carnival are either elite broadcasters from the platform or competition masters with various honors! Thank you all for your tremendous support for our event!

In my leisure time, I love fishing to relax. From this perspective, we are all fishing friends, so I won't bore you with formalities. Let's talk reality!

Kuaishou platform is an expedited development and growing platform. Everyone here is a provider and producer of quality content for the platform. From this standpoint, I want to thank everyone on behalf of the platform! Your contributions have enriched the platform's ecosystem!

The old saying goes, you get rewarded for your efforts. At present, the platform's interest e-commerce properties are still in the exploratory and transitional stage, but I believe, in the near future, more games and systems will provide everyone with more business opportunities.

Events like million-dollar prizes, Fishing Carnival will certainly happen continually, providing everyone with more offline communication opportunities!

I hope everyone keeps pace with the development trend of the platform, leveraging their ability to access traffic gateways and information channels to integrate their resources, mutually benefiting with the platform for cooperation and win-win outcomes! Thank you all!"

The response from the audience was much warmer compared to the leadership address.

Though not quite deafening applause, it lasted for more than ten seconds before tapering off.

As Liu Xingyun said, attendees of the carnival are either internet celebrities or professional anglers, top figures in the outdoor fishing vertical domain.

First, let's talk about the internet celebrities, most of whom are grassroots to profit from the huge attention and traffic they received by live streaming and shooting short videos on Kuaishou.

Traffic equals money; traffic is the negotiating capital with factory channel supply chains. With traffic, broadcasters have the bargaining chips.

After a stint of blend, they start selling goods, products, and their pockets bulge more and more, completing the realization from ordinary people to middle-class or higher.

As for professional anglers who signed entry agreements, this chance to win a million-dollar prize is even rarer. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

They are professionals, and their skills are significantly better than those grassroots anglers. Even without winning the championship, their overall ranking is generally among the top.

Even the tenth-place prize winner receives five thousand cash as a reward, such magnitude is rare.

Thinking of the continued content publishing growth and realization after joining the platform, it's equivalent to opening a new development path for these professional anglers.

For them, attending the carnival competition, even without winning any prize, is an invaluable asset in recognition.

With the official Kuaishou representative speech complete, the closing ceremony was concluded. YOYO once more approached the stage and continued: "President Liu's impromptu speech was fantastic; I hereby announce that the competition closing ceremony is officially over!

Next, we proceed to the award ceremony, the segment everyone anticipates!

The Kuaishou Fishing Carnival sets a total of forty awards, including ten cash prizes and thirty tackle memorabilia prizes. We will start awarding from the fortieth place. Please, athletes whose names are called, come up to receive your award!

Fortieth place, Junjun Loves Fishing! Thirty-ninth place…"

Holding the results list, YOYO started calling names from the fortieth place, with groups of five going on stage to receive their prizes.

For staging this carnival, Zhang Yang's team spared no expense, even for the fortieth place winner, gifting a complete set of Famous Fishing Tackle's collector's edition additive package, valued at over two thousand yuan!

The physical prize awarding segment went quickly, and soon it was time for the top ten cash prize segment.

According to the schedule's declared prize money, the first place winnings are one million, second place two hundred thousand, third place one hundred fifty thousand, fourth place thirty thousand, fifth place twenty thousand, and the sixth to tenth place, five thousand. The total ranking prize is 1.425 million yuan.

Apart from the top ten prizes, there is a single big fish award, with first place winning one hundred thousand, second place thirty thousand, third place ten thousand.

Adding all the awards together, the total prize pool amounts to 1.565 million yuan!

So much money, even the fifth place prize rivals winning first place in a category four national competition, no wonder so many professional anglers sharpen their spears to get in.

Starting from the tenth place, anglers were called on stage one after another to receive their prizes, gathering five people in line for a group photo before leaving the stage.

Then came the main event for the top five.

Each award-winning angler went on stage individually for speeches and photographs, maximizing the sense of ceremony.

Starting from the third place runner-up, the prize-winning anglers would give a victory speech, saying a few brief words, while Zhang Yang was the last to appear.

"Next, we welcome our champion, President Zhang Yang, President of Famous Fishing Tackle Company and team leader of the competition team, to come on stage to receive the award and deliver the victory speech!"

With YOYO's vigorous invitation, Zhang Yang stepped forward onto the stage.

He's been in such situations many times before, and this time speaking on his own turf made Zhang Yang even more relaxed. Upon hearing his name, he casually strolled to the stage and took the microphone handed over by Xiaowei.

"Hello everyone, I'm Zhang Yang! On behalf of the Famous Fishing Tackle Company, I welcome everyone to W City for a visit!"

"President Zhang, after winning the million-dollar prize, is there anything you'd like to say to everyone?" YOYO guided the conversation.

"Haha, mostly happiness! A few years ago, fishing wasn't recognized by the conventional world, 'Fishing, Shrimping, Setting Back Agriculture' right!

But in recent years, an industry and events have formed! Now, with the help of the Kuaishou platform, information spreading faster has led to the emergence of so many excellent peers, which is a good thing!

Every bit of industry development is the result of everyone working together! The medals are half belonging to the brothers!"

At this point, Zhang Yang mentioned how many people in the audience felt the same, fishing being unappreciated was normal, many even humbling themselves for the hobby, some even resulting in families falling apart.

But there are also a few whose minds were on other concerns.

Li Jun, who had received a mysterious call before the award ceremony, took three deep breaths at the moment, adjusting his state.

Just as Zhang Yang plan to continue his speech, Li Jun suddenly stood up from his seat, raised his hand towards the podium, signaling a desire to speak.