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Dawn's Early Night
ポケモンコンテスト！ヨスガ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Yosuga Convention!!
Broadcast dates
Japan	October 4, 2007
USA	January 26, 2008
Theme songs
Opening	Diamond and Pearl
Japanese theme songs
Opening	Together
Ending	君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜(PopUp.Version)
Credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
Storyboard	牧野行洋 Yukihiro Makino
Assistant director	秦義人 Yoshito Hata
Animation director	木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita
Screenshots on Filb.de Early reports credited Yukihiro Makino as both storyboarder and assistant director.

Dawn's Early Night (Japanese: ポケモンコンテスト！ヨスガ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Yosuga Convention!!) is the 49th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on October 4, 2007 as part of a two-hour special alongside DP050, and in the United States on January 26, 2008.

Dawn, Jessie, Zoey and Nando enter the Hearthome City Pokémon Contest, which features double appeals and double battles.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Major events 2.1 Debuts 3 Characters 3.1 Humans 3.2 Pokémon 4 Trivia 4.1 Errors 4.2 Dub edits 5 In other languages

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash and company learn of the Sinnoh Double Battle Tournament to be hosted in Hearthome from Nando.
• Dawn loses in the appeal round.
• Nando defeats Jessie in the semifinals.
• Nando then defeats Zoey in the final round.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Zoey
• Nando
• Johanna
• Marian
• Contesta
• Sukizo
• Pokémon coordinators
• Audience

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Buizel (Dawn's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Glameow (Zoey's)
• Glameow (Johanna's)
• Misdreavus (Zoey's)
• Shellos (Zoey's)
• Roselia (Nando's)
• Sunflora (Nando's)
• Kricketune (Nando's; debut)
• Psyduck
• Duskull
• Solrock
• Lunatone
• Smoochum
• Steelix
• Chansey
• Cubone
• Marowak
• Teddiursa
• Stantler
• Furret
• Sunkern

Trivia

• The opening animation is updated with all of Paul's Pokémon.
• The ending is omitted in the original broadcast, with the credits moved to the opening instead (scrolling from right to left).
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, and a instrumental version of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ are used as background music.
• This marks the second time that a main character lost in the appeal round. The only previous time took an extreme amount of ignorance on the part of Jessie.
• This episode is the first time Sinnoh's Pokémon Contests are referred to as Super Contests in the anime.
• The episode's dub title is a slight corruption of a lyric from The Star-Spangled Banner. This is the second time such a reference is used, after O'er the Rampardos we Watched.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• Italian: La Gara di doppia performance
• Iberian Spanish: ¡La temprana decepción de Maya!