I'm preparing myself for a huge cliffhanger at the end of this ep. That's more or less all I expect. I think it'll be somewhat like all the other episodes in general. Some fights in the tournament... some friendly chatter between Arika, Nina and Erstin... Tomoe looking evil, Nagi talking about is "master plan" and then, the cliffhanger.
I don't think Mai will appear just yet. But of course, I'm only saying that because I've been expecting her to show up in just about every damn episode up 'till now and she STILL isn't here. So let's try some reverse psychology.