Sinnoh Grand Festival
The Sinnoh Grand Festival is an anime-exclusive event during the Diamond & Pearl series. Pokémon Coordinators who wish to enter it need five ribbons won from the Sinnoh region Contests in order to do so. The winner of the Grand Festival would earn the Ribbon Cup.
In A Stand-Up Sit-Down!, Zoey mentioned that the Sinnoh Grand Festival will have a double performance round. In Fighting Ire with Fire!, Marian announced that it would be held at Lake Valor, the site of the most recent Wallace Cup.
Competition
The Grand Festival started in Last Call, First Round! and ended in DP177. Like all Sinnoh Pokémon Contests, Marian is the announcer. Instead of the usual three judges, the Grand Festival has six judges in attendance. As well as Mr. Contesta, Mr. Sukizo and Lilycove City's Nurse Joy there are two other Nurse Joys in attendance as well as a special guest judge: Fantina, the Hearthome Gym Leader and a Contest master.
For the Grand Festival, Dawn, as well as her rivals, wore new costumes.
Rounds
Appeals
Due to there being so many entrants to the Grand Festival, the appeal stage was divided up onto three stages; the Red Stage, the Green Stage, and the Blue Stage. Each coordinator performed on one of the stages for two of the judges. Each judging team consisting of a Nurse Joy alongside Mr. Contesta (Blue Stage), Mr. Sukizo (Green Stage), or Fantina (Red Stage). The stages can be modified for each coordinator (for instance, when Zoey appealed with her Gastrodon and Lumineon the stage transformed into a pool which was perfect for the two Template:Type2 Pokémon to use). Unlike the other Grand Festivals, Sinnoh's Grand Festival only has one appeal round instead of two. Once everyone had appealed, the Top 32 coordinators progressed to the second round.
Double-battles
The second round marked the beginning of the Grand Festival's battle rounds marking some changes to the layout. First, now there were only 32 coordinators left the battles were conducted on a single stage, and also the amount of judges had been reduced from six to four (Mr. Contesta, Mr. Sukizo, Nurse Joy and Fantina). Apart from that, the battles proceeded in a normal contest manner, with each coordinator using two Pokémon in their battles. Any coordiantor who ran out of points, had their Pokémon knocked out or had the least amount of points once the time ran out were eliminated from the Grand Festival.
Known contestants
| Trainer | Place |
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| Zoey | Winner |
| Dawn | Runner-up |
| Jessilina | Top 4 |
| Nando | Top 4 |
| Ursula | Top 32 |
| Kenny | N/A |
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Pokémon Contests | 
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| Necessary Spoils Pokéblocks • Poffins Contest Categories Cool • Beautiful • Cute • Clever • Tough Rounds Appeal • Battle • Dance • Visual |
Participation Contest • Super Contest • Contest Show Coordinator • Contest Hall • Contest Pass The Grand Festival Kanto • Hoenn • Sinnoh Top Coordinator • Ribbon Cup | ||
| Others Combinations • Opponents (III • IV • VI • VIII) • Double Performance • Jamming Ribbons (list) • Stickers • Ball Capsules • Ranks • Judges • Announcers • Wallace Cup | |||
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