Momoko continues to put the pressure on Tomoki and Hisa keeps racking up strong plays, while Saki is still unable to use her usual strategy. Saki remembers her training using online gaming and uses that skill to pick out Momoko's tiles. This finally allows her to play a rinshan kaiho to win the match. In the final matches, Hisa goes against Mihoko, Toka and Yumi; Nodoka goes against Kana, Jun and Hajime; Y?ki goes against Mako, Tomoki and Momoko; and Saki goes against Kazue, Kanbara, and Miharu. As everyone battles their hardest, Miharu fends off Saki in the east wind round; but in the south round, Kazue makes her moves. However, Saki counters Kazue and pulls out two rinshan kaiho moves to win her match, to place third, and to qualify for the nationals. Nodoka wins her match and qualifies second. Hisa wins her match but earned not enough points to qualify, and Mihoko is first place overall.