“Disintegration” bounces back and forth between the boardroom, where negotiators discussed the future of the Far Eastern Championship Games, and the fields, where athletes fought for victory under the sweltering Manila summer sun. The boardroom bouts and athletic competitions both produced controversies, but the former ended up outweighing all the animosity, camaraderie, and complexity of the latter. Boardroom negotiators from the Philippines and Japan, including several who had studied at Springfield College, ended up dissolving the Far Eastern Athletic Association, which had up until that time governed the Games, replacing it with a new organizational entity that included the puppet state of Manchukuo. Chinese negotiators, who were unable to attend the final meeting, vented their frustration upon arriving back in China. The conflict on the field, which centered on a series of basketball competitions, as well as the drama of the boardroom negotiations, set the stage for the actual conflict that would take place when Japan invaded China and the Philippines in World War II. This chapter concludes the story of the monograph by tracing how things began to fall apart as the world sped toward conflict.