I know, pretty much everything from the poster for this cour, to the opening to the extra scenes being given to both Ichigo and Uryu to build them up indicates that some kind of encounter will happen.Man, that's some extremely elaborate trolling if that's the case because it absolutely doesn't feel like it, especially when they keep giving Uryu scenes he never had and doing shit he never did...
Frankly if it doesn't happen at this point, all that's gonna end up being completely pointless.
Like how doing the execution now is completely pointless when we got a far better reason for Haschwalth to be recalled (Mustache going to sleep) and Uryu has already seen what happens when a Nazi dies so there's literally no reason to do it now, other than because Mustache is an idiot.