yse,you will get a ticket when you finished a academy lessons,the ticket can be used into the R 1 of meet to pao prize,of course,you can also have chance to join the 5K freeroll match ...It has no fees, you get access to better tutorials, lessons and challenge the more you play with real money there though.
It has a shop with ftp-academy points where you can also buy stuff.
I think it's pretty cool in my opinion, a worthy try to improve your game.