1st Anniversary Tour

1st Anniversary Tour
Start date	October 6, 2020 11:00 p.m. (PT)
End date	October 20, 2020 10:59 p.m. (PT)
Number of cups	12
Ranked cups	Bowser Cup (week 1) Mario Cup (week 2)
Coin Rush course	New York Minute 3
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The 1st Anniversary Tour was the twenty-eighth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on October 7, 2020, and ended on October 20, 2020. It celebrated the first anniversary since Mario Kart Tour's release on September 25, 2019, and saw the return of four previous city courses (Tokyo Blur, Paris Promenade, London Loop, and Vancouver Velocity) while also introducing New York Minute 3, which all make up half of the tour's courses. Log-in bonuses were extended from 10 days to all 14 days of the tour, as was the event tokens event. Anniversary Challenges were also added alongside the standard Tour Challenges and granted the player rubies as rewards for completing each of them. Additionally, the number of free pipes for this tour was increased from 4 to 6. The menu's background featured the Empire State Building as the landmark for this tour, which was reused from the 2019 Holiday Tour. This tour's trailer features city skylines during its opening splash screen.

This was the third tour in a row where the Mario Cup was a ranked cup, being in the second week.

Despite celebrating the game's first anniversary, the actual one-year anniversary fell in the previous tour, the 2020 Los Angeles Tour. Instead, the tour was announced on the day in question, three days after the 2020 Los Angeles Tour began, making this tour's announcement date one of the closest ones to its previous tour's starting date, though no information besides its name was given until the day the tour would have normally been announced. This was the first tour to feature a special pipe that reused a theme and name from a previous tour (the Gold Pipe from the Cooking Tour). It was also the first tour to feature 35 unique courses, including variants (the only recurring track was New York Minute 3R/T); due to this, it had fewer base courses compared to previous tours, with 10.

Spotlights

1st Anniversary Pipe 1 October 6, 2020, 11:00 p.m. (PT) – October 20, 2020, 10:59 p.m. (PT)	1st Anniversary Pipe 2 October 13, 2020, 11:00 p.m. (PT) – October 20, 2020, 10:59 p.m. (PT)
Drivers	Drivers
Pauline, Mario (Hakama), Peach (Vacation), Waluigi (Bus Driver), and Rosalina (Aurora)	Mario (Musician), Peach (Kimono), Shy Guy (Pastry Chef), Wario (Hiker), and Baby Rosalina (Detective)

Special pipe

Gold Pipe October 10, 2020, 11:00 p.m. (PT) – October 15, 2020, 10:59 p.m. (PT)
Drivers	Karts	Gliders
Dry Bones (Gold), Shy Guy (Gold), Dry Bowser (Gold), and Gold Koopa (Freerunning)	Gold Clanky Kart, Gold Egg, Gold Pipe Frame, Gold Train, Gold Cheep Snorkel, and Gold Cheep Charger	Silver-and-Gold Hearts, Gold Crane, Gold Glider, and Gold Swooper

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	ゴールドドカン Gōrudo Dokan	Gold Pipe
German	Gold-Röhre	Gold Pipe		[?]
Italian	Tubo dorato	Golden pipe		[?]

Cups

Bowser Cup Ranked cup (week 1)	New York Minute 3	1,200	Paris Promenade	1,100	GBA Bowser's Castle 1T	1,300	Combo Attack
		1,800		1,700		1,900	Vancouver Velocity T	Koopa Troopa
		2,400		2,300		2,600		5
		3,100		2,900		3,200		10
		6,100		5,700		6,400		16
Baby Peach Cup	3DS Toad Circuit R	1,100	Tokyo Blur	1,400	London Loop T	1,500	Do Jump Boosts
		1,700		2,100		2,400	DS Airship Fortress	Morton
		2,300		2,900		3,200		8
		2,900		3,600		4,000		12
		5,500		6,900		7,700		18
Lakitu Cup	Vancouver Velocity T	1,600	SNES Choco Island 1	1,700	Paris Promenade T	1,500	Goomba Takedown
		2,600		2,700		2,400	Tokyo Blur	Mario
		3,500		3,600		3,200		10
		4,400		4,500		4,100		20
		8,200		8,400		7,500		30
Koopa Troopa Cup	London Loop	1,000	3DS Rainbow Road	1,700	DS Airship Fortress	1,500	Ring Race
		1,600		2,800		2,500	New York Minute 3	Bowser Jr.
		2,200		3,800		3,400		10
		2,800		4,800		4,300		16
		5,000		8,600		7,700		28
Mario Cup Ranked cup (week 2)	Vancouver Velocity R	1,500	London Loop R	1,200	New York Minute 3R/T	1,600	Big Reverse Race
		2,500		2,100		2,800	Paris Promenade	Any character
		3,400		2,800