The knockout stage of the tournament began quickly, starting with a duel between Atsuko Maeda and Ami Maeda, in which Atsuko Maeda was not able to continue her good fortune and unfortunately lost to her junior with the same surname. However, she still maintained her record of consecutive singles auditions. In the history of AKB, there is no one else who can compare to her except Yona Kojima.

The second group of matchups was the duel between Ami Sato and Hauka Ishida, who had the most miraculous dark horse record in the general election last year, and in the end, Amika Sato did not continue her miracle and lost to the young Haruka Ishida. Haruka Ishida, who entered the single audition for the first time, continued her hurricane path.

The showdown between Natsuki Sato and Mai Shiraishi in the third group of duels, as one of the few active college students among the AKB members, and also a Waseda college student, Natsuki Sato can be said to be one of the few well-rounded members among the members, and he feels especially good on variety shows.

And Mai Shiraishi, as the three core members of Group B, exudes the temperament of a big lady, and Mai Shiraishi also has an excellent performance in variety shows, both of them hope that they can get one step closer!

"Scissors, rock, paper!"

In the end, Natsuki Sato was defeated in this duel, and Mai Shiraishi continued her path as a representative of the popular members.

In the next few matchups, Yona Kojima, Mayumi Uchida, Haruka Nakagawa, Asuka Kuramochi, and Tanabe were born to defeat their opponents and advance to the next round.

In the subsequent quarter-elimination of the four, Mai Shiraishi, Mayumi Uchida, and Yona Kojima entered the final competition.

Yona Kojima's outstanding performance surprised the members who had been eliminated.

"Hina. This guy isn't going to go for the C position, right? Yuko Oshima asked.

"Possibly, but the other three aren't easy to mess with. If I hadn't met Yona, I guess the top four would have been mine. Maybe we can even win the championship. Mai Oshima said without shame.

Qiu Yuan glanced at her, "Ya, you're embarrassed to say this in a round of swimming, speaking of which, Takahashi was killed by Mi-chan in seconds." ”

"To be honest, Takahashi's words I think winning a match in her guessing tournament is already the biggest improvement, really," Yuko Oshima laughs.

Takahashi Minami rolled her eyes, "Yuko." Don't talk about me, you can even lose to Sassy. To be honest, if I had met Sases, I might have entered the second round. ”

Yuko Oshima was speechless. Now that I think about what Takahashi Minami said, it makes sense that he was eliminated by the waste wood of Rina Dichimara, and Rinai Rathera was killed by Natsuki Sato in the second round. It's all tears.

"I'm going to participate in the semi-finals, melancholy" Yona Kojima's faint words suddenly made Yuko Oshima, Mai Oshima, and Minami Takahashi speechless. Paired with her languid sitting posture

This is so devastating!

After a short rest. Qualifying and semi-finals started one after another, and Yona Kojima, who was just triumphant, finally stopped her progress in this round, and she was cut down by her opponent in the duel with Ishida Haruka! And Mai Shiraishi seemed to have made an appointment with her, and was eliminated by Mayumi Uchida in this round.

In this way, the final contest for the center position is Mayumi Uchida and Haruka Ishida! Yona Kojima and Mai Shiraishi compete for third place!

The two girls, Yumi Uchinami and Haruka Ishida, were both born in the fifth term, which means that in this single audition, for the first time, there will be a situation where the center position is not the first or second phase of the student, which is an improvement for the members at the bottom of AKB48, but this is not necessarily a good thing for single sales. Because many members, including popular members such as Mai Oshima, Yuko Oshima, Mayu Watanabe, and Tomomi Itano, will be absent from this single.

The only popular members in this single are Atsuko Maeda, Yona Kojima and Mai Shiraishi, and Atsuko Maeda is still standing relatively backward.

In the subsequent battle for third place. Yona Kojima defeated Mai Shiraishi and became the third place in this guessing competition, and in the championship competition that attracted much attention later, Mayumi Uchida defeated her partner at the same time to become the champion, and also won a very valuable position in the center of the single selection!

At the end of the guessing boxing conference, Yasu Akimoto presented the championship trophy to the winning Mayumi Uchida, this year's guessing boxing conference did not give many surprises to the fans, and the members did not show any excitement, everything seemed so calm; It can't compare to the shock of the general election a few months ago, but this general election is destined to go down in history, and Mayumi Uchida is the first civilian member of AKB48 to win the selection center position, and she is also the last!

Although the guessing tournament has ended, the story is not over yet. Just after the end of the boxing tournament, several unpleasant things happened in the AKB lounge.

When Kagawa Yu was going back to his lounge, he saw Mariko Nakamura wanting to run to take a photo with Mariko Shinoda, but was ignored by Mariko Shinoda, which made Kagawa Yu's opinion of Mariko Shinoda change a little. Mariko Shinoda is a very arrogant person, and sometimes she doesn't know how to deal with the relationship with the members, which is a big taboo in the entertainment world! If Mariko Shinoda has extraordinary talents, there is nothing wrong with doing so, just like the two girls, Yuko Oshima and Mai Oshima, the personal abilities of these two can completely allow themselves to gain a foothold in the entertainment world.

But Mariko Shinoda is different, in addition to having the figure of a model, she is not at the level of an entertainer in other aspects such as acting, singing, dancing, and variety shows, and now she is so popular because of the AKB platform, it is AKB that has made her, not her AKB! Once Mariko Shinoda graduates, if the attention is a little less so, coupled with her personality, it is very likely that she will become a shooting star.

Kagawa Yu also knew that Mariko Shinoda's eccentric personality, or that her emotional intelligence was a little low, but he didn't say anything or do anything, he couldn't always shelter the members from the wind and rain, and there were some things that Mariko Shinoda had to go through, and she would only change after the experience.

Of course, if this incident of Mariko Shinoda made him worry about Mariko Shinoda, then the next thing made her chill the whole atmosphere within the AKB team. (To be continued......)