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In the next round, all four Pokémon dance on the stage. Competitors control their Pokémon with four buttons: {{color|{{green color}}|Left}}, {{color|{{yellow color}}|Right}}, {{color|{{blue color}}|Front}}, and {{color|{{red color}}|Jump}}. The dancer in front chooses up to three steps in the Normal Rank and Great Rank{{sup/4|DP}}, and four in the Great Rank{{sup/4|Pt}}, Ultra Rank and Master Rank, matching the beat as closely as possible. Then the backup dancers try to match the lead dancer's moves. Each Pokémon will lead for two measures (a measure is the time it takes for the lead dancer to make its moves and the backup dancers to follow), and each measure will contain 16 beats, except that in Platinum, a measure contains only 12 beats during Cool or Beauty Contests at Ultra Rank or Master Rank.

A Pokémon earns 1 point for each step judged as "Good", and 2 points for each step judged as "Excellent". A step judged as a "Miss" does not score. A player may choose not to input any steps during their turn as the lead dancer, in which case the backups will have nothing to follow and no players will be able to score any points during that turn, but computer-controlled players will always input the maximum number of allowed steps during their turn. The maximum score for the Dance Competition is 48 points in Contests with 3 steps per measure, and 64 points in Contests with 4 steps per measure.

This is the equivalent of the second round of Pokémon Contests in [[Generation III]]. In addition to selecting which move a Pokémon should use, each performer now also selects one of the three [[Contest Judge]]s, [[Jordan]], [[Dexter]], or [[Keira]], to try and earn Appeal Points. At the end of each round, judges award extra hearts to the Pokémon: +3 hearts if only one Pokémon performed to them, +2 each if two Pokémon performed to them, +1 apiece if three Pokémon performed to them, and none if all Pokémon performed to the same judge. This competition has four rounds, rather than the five rounds found in [[Generation III]]. The Pokémon, contrary to the Hoenn Contests, get their position by their scoring in reverse. The best scorer goes last and the worst scorer goes first, unless specific appeal effects modify this. Performing a Contest-matching move (i.e. a Tough move in a Tough Contest) to any judge causes their Voltage to go up by 1, however, an incompatible move (such as a Smart move in a Cool Contest) causes the Voltage to go down by 1. The Pokémon who fills the last star on a judge's Voltage meter will receive a bonus from the judge they performed to: Keira and Jordan give +5 hearts, while Dexter (as the head judge) gives +8. No bonus hearts are awarded for causing the Voltage to increase unless it's the fifth and final star, or if the move mentions that as a specific effect (such as {{m|Poison Jab}}); likewise, causing the Voltage to go down never results in losing hearts.

In lower ranks, computer-controlled players may cheat to their own detriment, and the player's benefit. If such a player would select randomly between all three judges, they will instead wait to find out which judge the human player selected (something that is not normally possible to do at move selection time), and a certain percentage of the time, they will modify their random selection to specifically avoid that judge. In Normal Rank, this judge avoidance mechanism occurs 90% of the time; in Great Rank, 50%; and in Ultra Rank, 20%. No judge avoidance occurs in Master Rank.

 

Each heart earned from the Acting Competition is scored as 10 points, though the exact number ultimately doesn't matter since no score is ever compared as a raw total against a score from a different round.

To compute a Pokémon's final score, the scores from each competition are first scaled such that the Pokémon with the best score in the competition is given 33 points, and the other Pokémon are given scores proportional to this score. This score is then scaled again such that the best score is filled in with 64 pixels, and the other Pokémon have a proportional number of pixels filled in on the scoring bar, with a different color for each round (so the overall scoring bar takes up 192 out of the DS's 256-pixel horizontal resolution). The final score of a Pokémon is the sum of the Pokémon's scores from each of the competitions, and the Pokémon with the highest final score wins. If there is a tie for highest score, a winner among the tied players is randomly chosen.

The winning Pokémon will receive a [[Ribbon]] for the [[Contest condition]] and rank. The player will also receive a special [[Accessory]] for the first time they win a given Contest category and rank, which can be used to dress up their Pokémon in future Contests.