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After Souma's turn in block A of the autumn preliminaries, the standings were
thus:

[![block A
rankings](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0q2yO.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0q2yO.jpg)

As you can see, there's a tie for fourth between Marui and Ibusaki. It was
mentioned in episode 23 that if there were to be a tie that affects who passes
the preliminaries, the judges would vote to determine who passes and who
doesn't.

So I figure they must have voted on whether Marui or Ibusaki would be the
fourth contestant from block A - but which one of them won the vote? During
the after-party, Yoshino mentions that Ibusaki was probably sulking in his
room, so I guess maybe Marui won? But nobody seemed to explicitly acknowledge
that Marui had made it through, so I'm a bit confused.


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Who ended up placing fourth in block A of the autumn preliminaries?


[Another contestant](http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/Subaru_Mimasaka)
beat them both with an unrevealed curry dish that scored [91
points](http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/43rd_Annual_T%C5%8Dtsuki_Autumn_Election#Preliminary_Round_2).
Who it is was not revealed until later... it would seem that
[someone](http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/Etsuya_Eizan) in the Elite Ten
put him there for a reason.


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