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Jostling for the Junior Cup!

BW090

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ジュニアカップ開幕！カイリューVSツンベアー！！
The Junior Cup Gets Underway! Kairyu VS Tunbear!!

First broadcast

Japan	August 2, 2012
United States	December 1, 2012

English themes

Opening	Rival Destinies
Ending

Japanese themes

Opening	やじるしになって！
Ending	みてみて☆こっちっち

Credits

No additional credits are available at this time.
Animation	Team Kato
Screenplay	武上純希 Junki Takegami
Storyboard	吉村文宏 Fumihiro Yoshimura
Assistant director	吉村文宏 Fumihiro Yoshimura
Animation director	篠原隆 Takashi Shinohara

Jostling for the Junior Cup! (Japanese: ジュニアカップ開幕！カイリューVSツンベアー！！ The Junior Cup Gets Underway! Kairyu VS Tunbear!!) is the 90th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 747th episode of the Pokémon anime. It aired in Japan on August 2, 2012 and in the United States on December 1, 2012.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash, Iris and Cilan enter Lacunosa Town for the Junior Cup. The Cup starts with an exhibition match against Elite Four members Cynthia and Caitlin, which ends in a draw. Now the Junior Cup really begins!

The first round pits Trip and his newly evolved Serperior vs. Burgundy and her brand new Darmanitan. Serperior used Leer to lower Darmanitan's defense and used the match-winning SolarBeam. When the smoke clears, Darmanitan is no longer able to battle. Trip is victorious!

The next round is showcased, all leading up to the final round (Iris vs. her rival Georgia). Iris' Dragonite starts disobeying her and seems to be losing, but in the end Dragonite defeats Georgia's Beartic with ThunderPunch. Now the Junior Cup continues...

Major events

Ash and his friends arrive in Lacunosa Town.
Dawn meets Trip, Burgundy, Georgia and Alder for the first time.
The Pokémon World Tournament Junior Cup begins.
An exhibition match between Cynthia and Caitlin takes place, ending in a draw.
Trip's Servine is revealed to have evolved into Serperior.
Burgundy is revealed to have obtained a Darmanitan.
Trip defeats Burgundy and advances to the next round.
Cilan, Ash and Dawn defeat their opponents and advance to the next round.
Iris's Dragonite starts disobeying her.
Iris defeats Georgia and advances to the next round.

For a list of all major events in Pokémon the Series, please see the timeline page.

Debuts

Caitlin

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Garchomp

Pikachu (Ash's)
Axew (Iris's)
Snivy (Ash's; flashback)
Leavanny (Ash's)
Dragonite (Iris's)
Pansage (Cilan's)
Audino (Nurse Joy's)
Meloetta (anime)
Piplup (Dawn's)
Servine (Trip's; flashback)
Serperior (Trip's)
Darmanitan (Burgundy's)
Beartic (Georgia's)
Garchomp (Cynthia's)
Gothitelle (Caitlin's)
Heatmor (Manning's)
Golett (Kenton's)
Galvantula (Shepherd's)
Cinccino (Horatio's)
Zebstrika (Simeon's)
Karrablast (Marris's)
Reuniclus (Geraldo's)
Sawsbuck (Cassie's)
Stoutland (Ramone's)
Blitzle (Trainer's)
Foongus (Trainer's; multiple)
Lillipup (Trainer's; ×2)
Deerling (Trainer's)
Pidove (Trainer's; ×2)
Patrat (Trainer's)
Minccino (Trainer's)
Watchog (Trainer's)

Trivia

Team Rocket's Pokémon Live Caster: Kyurem VS the Sacred Swordsman: Keldeo
This episode marks the first time two Pokémon League Champions are seen interacting with each other in the anime.
This episode begins the four-part Pokémon World Tournament Junior Cup arc.
The Who's That Pokémon? segment was skipped in the original airing of the English dubbed episode.
This episode aired on November 26, 2012 in Italy (on K2), five days before the US airdate.
This is the first episode since Dawn's return to not feature the Team Rocket trio.
The quotes that Caitlin and Cynthia used before and after the exhibition match were the same exact ones used in the Generation V games when the player character interacts with them during the battle.
Caitlin and Cynthia battling could be a reference to the fact that Caitlin and the other female Elite Four members and Gym Leaders lend Cynthia the villa in the games. It could also refer to the fact that in the games, Caitlin was a Frontier Brain in Sinnoh, for the Battle Castle.

Errors

When Iris sends out Dragonite, Dragonite's antennae are orange instead of cream.

Dub edits

In other languages


Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		青少年杯開幕！快龍對凍原熊！！
Dutch		Knokken voor de Junior Cup!
Greek		Συνωστισμός για το Κύπελλο Νέων!
Italian		La Coppa Junior ha inizio!
Polish		Walka o Puchar Świata Juniorów!
European Spanish		¡A Empujón Limpio por la Copa Junior!