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The Grand Festival is the final challenge for all coordinators. In order to enter the grand festival, a coordinator must earn five contest ribbons. The winner of the grand festival wins the ribbon cup.

For the Grand Festival the coordinators wore new costumes


Competition Rounds

Preliminary Appeal round (Double Performance or Single Performance)

135 Coordinators must produce impressive appeals with their Pokémon, by having them produce one move:
Only the best 32 progress through the main appeal round the next day

Main Appeal round (Double Performance or Single Performance)

32 Coordinators must produce impressive appeals with their Pokémon, by having them produce many moves:
Only the best 8 coordinators go through to the Double Battle Round the next day

Battle round

On the 3rd day of the tournament, 8 Coordinators face each other in knock-out double battles.
Matches last for 5 minutes and the Coordinator with the least points loses if both opponents still have a Pokémon standing. The Coordinator who wins all 3 matches is the winner of the tournament.

Double Battle round

The double battle round is the round in a Pokémon Contest Grand Festival. The purpose of the round is to have the Pokémon battle each other while still making their moves look beautiful.


Each contestant begins with a fixed number of points.

These points are lost when

  1. An opponent's move hits their Pokémon,
  2. Their move misses or doesn't look beautiful,
  3. The contestant is issued a yellow card.

Additionally, contestants can be disqualified upon

  1. Being found cheating or issued a second yellow card,
  2. Presumably being issued a red card


  2. If two of the Pokémon of one team faints


Sudden Death




  • In the game, there are no grand festivals unlike in the anime.

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