Like you said , Rindo chose what sounded fun . Eishi probably didn ' t care either way , so Rindo told him to vote with her . According to either Senzaemon , Dojima , or Joichiro I forget which , Azami amassed a lot of allies before his takeover of Totsuki . Eizan could have sided with Azami in order to get access to that network . Also , his current clients would be forced to go to him in order to reform in a way that they don ' t get shut down . For the other 3 , there ' s a mix of possible factors Coordination game failure . If you vote for Senzaemon but not enough vote with you , well . you know what happened . Getting into Central doesn ' t affect them as much . Since the curriculum focuses on Elite 10 level dishes . well everything they make is Elite 10 level anyways . They aren ' t in any danger of getting kicked out or anything . And speaking of which . since everyone else is forced to copy existing dishes , it absolutely makes sure they can ' t develop enough to realistically challenge the Elite 10 for those seats . Azami gave them an offer too good to refuse , like the equivalent of Hayama ' s shiny new spice lab .