Is that correct?

Yes, I believe so.

I don't know if there's a limit yet.

I know we're in the year 21 or 22 coming up of the Elite Series in general.

So John Cruz has 46 cuts available to drop off his record.

No, I'm just kidding.

But he's got like four or five if you've been on the Elite Series maximum that you can drop off.

So another thing that you had brought up earlier that I want to dive back into is who are some guys that are going to need a really good season in 2027? Like they're going to have to finish top 70, right? Or they're kind of screwed.

He's running around up there at the St. Lawrence with those guys, and now he's got to do Bass Fest coming up in a couple of weeks.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, he's been around forever.

He references the old ESPN outdoor days.

He's been the man for a long time.

He just has a lot more hats these days than he used to.

But, no, it's been an exciting year, and kudos to Eric and the whole team that put together a great 2026 schedule, quite a diverse array of rivers and lakes with the 50-50 forward-facing and non-forward-facing.

fighting for those those numbers right in there and then of course you got the dreaded 70 line as well which nobody understands except for you uh you know what career averages and everything else we won't know that it'll take halfway through to fall before we figure out who's back and who's not but i mean so there's numbers that are in play all the way through this deal this weekend

Do you have a soft spot for any of those classics? Like, is there one in particular that you just have a really fond memory of? Oh,

man.

I mean, I can remember so many.

And like, you know, prior to...

There's obviously classic memories like the Takehiro one when I was in 04 was in North and South Carolina at Wiley.

And that was one of the first classics I remember in person or following avidly because we fished like Wiley.

um and then i'm just taking you through prior to working because that'll kind of explain different things but uh i got to go to the lay lake classic where the entire top 10 was in beeswax when kvd won and so we were like i said i actually made my tv debut in that one you could hear me yell when ike catches his final fish of the classic we're right there in the flotilla and you hear this little kid go whoa and that was me.

But before we get into predictions of the actual anglers themselves, can you give us like a 30,000 foot view? If anybody has never watched an event on the Tennessee River, whether it's, you know, all the Fort Loudoun area, the Teleco area, all of that, can you give us an overview on how this fishery sets up and what makes it unique?