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ポケモンコンテスト！ズイ大会！！ Pokémon Contest! Zui Convention!!
Broadcast dates
Japan	December 20, 2007
USA
Theme songs
Opening
Japanese theme songs
Opening	Together (shown in DP060)
Ending	君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜(Winter Version)
Credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
Storyboard	井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani
Assistant director	浅田裕二 Yūji Asada
Animation director	岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane
Screenshots on Filb.de

(Japanese: ポケモンコンテスト！ズイ大会！！ Pokémon Contest! Zui Convention!!) is the 61st episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on December 20, 2007 along with DP060.

Dawn prepares for the Contest taking place the next day. Although the training flows smoothly, she has fierce competition this time, including Kenny and his new partner, a Breloom. Will Dawn be able to win her second ribbon despite dropping out after the first round in her last Contest?

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Jessie wins the Solaceon Contest with her Dustox.
• Dawn loses in the Appeal Round for the second contest in a row.
• Ash's Turtwig is learning Energy Ball.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy (from Solaceon Town)
• Zoey
• Kenny
• Johanna
• Marian
• Contesta
• Sukizō
• Pokémon Coordinators
• Audience

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Glameow (Zoey's)
• Prinplup (Kenny's)
• Breloom (Kenny's)
• Glameow (Johanna's)
• Rattata
• Dunsparce
• Steelix
• Exploud
• Dusclops

Trivia

• Professor Oak's lecture: Bibarel
  • Pokémon senryū: たいぼくを　かじれビーダル　はがいのち
• This is the first official contest that Jessie has ever won though she uses another name in her entry, Jesselina.
• This marks the second time that Dawn hasn't made it through the appeals round.
• This is the last episode to use 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜 (Winter Version) as an ending theme well as 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜 in general.
• This episode is aired with DP060. As a result, the opening was shown in DP060.
• The credits are of DP060 and DP061.
• Ambipom's performance was similar to May's Skitty's performance in the Grand Festival where they kept using the same move over and over again.
• In every contest shown since those in the Kanto region, contestants have been shown to be able to use a different Pokémon for the Appeal and Battle rounds. Despite this, Jessie used Dustox in both rounds.

Errors

Dub edits