Pirate Tour

Pirate Tour
Start date	August 11, 2020 11:00 p.m. (PT)
End date	August 25, 2020 10:59 p.m. (PT)
Number of cups	12
Ranked cups	Bowser Jr. Cup (week 1) King Boo Cup (week 2)
Coin Rush course	DS Airship Fortress
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The Pirate Tour was the twenty-fourth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on August 12, 2020 and ended on August 25, 2020. True to its name, the tour introduced a pirate variant of Bowser Jr. while also adding in new pirate-themed kart parts such as the Pirate Sushi Racer and the Great Sail, with Airship Fortress from Mario Kart DS acting as the signature course. The tour also marked King Bob-omb's playable debut in the Mario Kart series and the Mario series in general. The menu's background featured the airships from Airship Fortress as the landmark for this tour.

This was also the final tour that contained the first set of Expert Challenges for players, which started in the Cooking Tour.

Spotlights

Week 1 August 11, 2020, 11:00 p.m. (PT) – August 25, 2020, 10:59 p.m. (PT)			Week 2 August 18, 2020, 11:00 p.m. (PT) – August 25, 2020, 10:59 p.m. (PT)
Driver	Kart	Glider	Driver	Kart	Glider
Bowser Jr. (Pirate)	Pirate Sushi Racer	Lightning Oilpaper	King Bob-omb	Silver Bullet Blaster	Bob-omb Parafoil

Cups

Bowser Jr. Cup Ranked cup (week 1)	DS Airship Fortress	1,400	3DS Neo Bowser City R	1,100	SNES Ghost Valley 1T	1,500	Combo Attack
		2,100		1,600		2,300	GBA Bowser's Castle 1T	Iggy
		2,800		2,100		3,000		5
		3,500		2,700		3,800		10
		7,000		5,300		7,600		15
Toadette Cup	SNES Choco Island 1R	1,600	N64 Kalimari Desert 2R	1,400	RMX Mario Circuit 1	1,500	Ring Race
		2,500		2,100		2,300	DS Airship Fortress	Baby Daisy
		3,400		2,900		3,000		5
		4,300		3,600		3,800		10
		8,200		6,900		7,300		23
King Boo Cup Ranked cup (week 2)	GCN Yoshi Circuit R/T	1,300	N64 Frappe Snowland T	1,300	DS Airship Fortress T	2,700	Do Jump Boosts
		2,100		2,100		4,300	SNES Choco Island 1	Monty Mole
		2,800		2,800		5,800		5
		3,500		3,500		7,300		12
		6,500		6,500		13,500		20
Bowser Cup	3DS Daisy Hills R	1,300	GBA Bowser's Castle 1R	1,300	RMX Mario Circuit 1R	1,300	Time Trial
		2,200		2,200		2,100	SNES Mario Circuit 1	Toadette
		3,000		2,900		2,800		1:15.00
		3,800		3,700		3,600		1:02.00
		6,700		6,600		6,400		0:53.00
Dry Bones Cup	GBA Bowser's Castle 1T	1,300	DS Airship Fortress R	1,500	N64 Frappe Snowland	1,000	Smash Small Dry Bones
		2,200		2,500		1,700	RMX Mario Circuit 1	Rosalina
		2,900		3,400		2,300		5
		3,700		4,200		3,000		10
		6,400		7,300		5,100		15
Daisy Cup	3DS Daisy Hills	1,200	3DS Rock Rock Mountain T	2,100	SNES Ghost Valley 1R	1,100	Goomba Takedown
		2,200		3,700		2,000	DS Airship Fortress	Waluigi
		2,900		5,000		2,700		10
		3,700		6,400		3,400		25
		6,200		10,600		5,600		38
Dry Bowser Cup	N64 Kalimari Desert 2T	1,600	RMX Mario Circuit 1T	1,700	DS Airship Fortress	1,600	Big Reverse Race
		2,800		3,000		2,900	GCN Yoshi Circuit	Any character
		3,900		4,100		4,000		50cc
		4,900		5,200		5,000		100cc
		7,900		8,400		8,100		150cc
Diddy Kong Cup	SNES Choco Island 1	1,800	3DS Rock Rock Mountain	1,600	3DS Neo Bowser City T	1,800	Time Trial
		3,300		3,000		3,300	GBA Bowser's Castle 1R	King Boo
		4,500		4,000		4,500		1:35.00
		5,700		5,100		5,800		1:25.00
		8,900		8,000		9,000		1:15.00
Wendy Cup	3DS Rock Rock Mountain R	1,500	3DS Neo Bowser City	1,300	3DS Daisy Hills T	1,800	Steer Clear of Obstacles
		2,800		2,500		3,500	SNES Choco Island 1	Wendy
		3,800		3,500		4,800		1
		4,800		4,400		6,100		2
		7,300		6,700		9,200		3
Luigi Cup	GBA Bowser's Castle 1	1,400	DS Airship Fortress T	2,900	SNES Ghost Valley 1	1,500	Break Item Boxes
		2,800		5,700		2,800	3DS Rock Rock Mountain	Peach
		3,800		7,800		3,900		5
		4,800		9,900		5,000		10
		7,100		14,600		7,300		15
Wario Cup	DS Airship Fortress R	1,700	SNES Choco Island 1T	2,200	DS Luigi's Mansion R/T	2,000	Goomba Takedown
		3,500		4,500		3,900	3DS Neo Bowser City	Bowser Jr.
		4,800		6,200		5,400		15
		6,100		7,800		6,900		25
		8,700		11,200		9,800		35
Koopa Troopa Cup	N64 Frappe Snowland R	1,500	N64 Kalimari Desert 2	2,100	SNES Mario Circuit 1R/T	1,900	Vs. Mega Bowser Jr. (Pirate)
		3,000		4,300		4,000	DS Airship Fortess	Any character
		4,200		5,900		5,500		50cc
		5,300		7,500		7,000		100cc
		7,400		10,400		9,700		150cc

Notes

The Pirate Tour reuses the Mario Cup's bonus challenge from the Tokyo Tour for this tour's Wario Cup, the Peach Cup's bonus challenge from the Paris Tour for this tour's Bowser Cup, and the Dry Bowser Cup's bonus challenge from the Winter Tour for this tour's Luigi Cup.

Signature kart sets

In every cup, the driver which the cup is themed about is raised a tier on each track, making them a three- or two-item driver on that course. Up until the Ice Tour, a kart and a glider were also given a bonus for each race in the cup.

Cup	Character	Kart	Glider
Second course of every cup
Third course of every cup
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Rewards

Gold cells indicate rewards exclusive to Gold Pass members.

30	60	75	120	165		200
Piston Glider	Bull's-Eye Banzai	Bullet Blaster	Dark Clown	Dry Bones	Bullet Bill Parachute	Boo Hanafuda

Grand Stars		15	30	45	60	75	90	105	120	135	150	165	180	190	200	210	220	225	230	235	240	245	250	255	260	265	270	Total	Grand total
Free pipe launch		1								1				1										1				4
Coin				100		100		100			100		100					100		100								700	1800
			300				300										500											1100
Rubies			5		3		3		3			3							3									20	50
				5		5		5			5		5			5												30
Item tickets				2							2				2	2												8	23
						2	2	2							3	3	3											15
Star tickets					1								1															2	3
									1																			1
Point-boost tickets									1								2			1								3	5
					1								1															2
								1								1			1									3	5
				1								1																2
							1								1			1										3	5
			1								1																	2
Level-boost ticket																												3	12
																												9

New content

Items

• 

  Giga Bob-omb

Drivers

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  Bowser Jr. (Pirate)

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  King Bob-omb

Karts

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  Pirate Sushi Racer

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  Silver Bullet Blaster

Gliders

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  Great Sail

Courses

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  DS Airship Fortress (N, R, T)

Challenges

Tour Challenges 1				Tour Challenges 2				Gold Challenges
Completion reward: Quick ticket ×1				Completion reward: Coin Rush ticket ×1				Completion reward: Rubies ×5
Land 3 hits with Bob-ombs.	Get a Fantastic combo a total of 3 times.	Use 15 Mushrooms.		Land 5 hits with Bananas.	Do 50 Jump Boosts.	Do a total of 3 Slipstream boosts.		Land 5 hits with Red Shells.	Get a Fantastic combo a total of 5 times.	Do 10 Rocket Starts.
Finish a race by gliding over the finish line.	Earn a score of 9,000 or higher using a driver wearing a shell.	Cause opponents to crash in Frenzy mode.		Perform a total of 3 Jump Boosts by bouncing off hot-air balloons.	Earn a score of 10,000 or higher on a T or R/T course.	Get a combo count of ×20 or higher.		Cause opponents to crash 3 times while gliding.	Get 1st place on an SNES course using a driver with a mustache.	Take out 5 Piranha Plants.
Earn a score of 6,000 or higher using a Koopaling.	Earn a total score of 20,000 or higher in the King Boo Cup.	Drive a distance of 20,000 or more.		Earn a score of 7,000 or higher using a driver with a hat.	Earn a total score of 15,000 or higher in the Daisy Cup.	Race in every course of every cup, including bonus challenges.		Land 3 hits with Green Shells in a single race using a driver wearing a shell.	Earn a total score of 25,000 or higher in the Dry Bowser Cup.	Get a nonstop combo.

Initial pipe appearance rates

In the Pirate Tour, the Bowser's Minions Pipe held 50 items instead of 100 items and contained these items:

Items obtained from a new pipe during the Pirate Tour
Item	Normal			Super			High-End
	Character	Kart	Glider	Character	Kart	Glider	Character	Kart	Glider
Amount	35	0	0	12	0	0	3	0	0

In the Pirate Tour, the All-Clear Pipe held all regular High-End items, but only shoots out one item at random and could contain any of these items:

All-Clear Pipe

High-End items obtained from the All-Clear Pipe during the Pirate Tour
High-End drivers	Dry Bowser, Metal Mario, Pink Gold Peach, Pauline, Peachette, Ice Mario
High-End karts	B Dasher, Badwagon, Circuit Special, Bruiser, Wild Wing, Bumble V, Wildfire Flyer, Red B Dasher, P-Wing, Green Apple Kart, Poison Apple Kart, Dozer Dasher, Banana Master, Offroader, Pink Wing, Koopa King, Cact-X
High-End gliders	Swooper, Cloud Glider, Gold Glider, Pink Gold Paper Glider, Butterfly Sunset, Crimson Crane, Strawberry Donut, Heart Balloons, Tropical Glider, Great Sail

Pirate Pipe 1

Class	Parts	Rate (each)
High-End spotlight driver	Bowser Jr. (Pirate)	1.0000%
High-End spotlight kart	Pirate Sushi Racer	1.0000%
High-End drivers	Dry Bowser, Metal Mario, Pink Gold Peach, Pauline, Peachette, King Bob-omb, Ice Mario	0.1429%
High-End karts	B Dasher, Badwagon, Circuit Special, Bruiser, Wild Wing, Bumble V, Wildfire Flyer, Red B Dasher, P-Wing, Green Apple Kart, Poison Apple Kart, Dozer Dasher, Banana Master, Offroader, Pink Wing, Silver Bullet Blaster, Koopa King, Cact-X	0.0556%
High-End gliders	Swooper, Cloud Glider, Gold Glider, Pink Gold Paper Glider, Butterfly Sunset, Crimson Crane, Strawberry Donut, Heart Balloons, Tropical Glider, Great Sail	0.2000%
Super spotlight glider	Lightning Oilpaper	1.0000%
Super drivers	Donkey Kong, Toad, Bowser, Luigi, Mario, Peach, Yoshi, Daisy, Lakitu, King Boo, Toadette, Bowser Jr., Waluigi, Wario, Rosalina, Birdo, Diddy Kong, Hammer Bro, Boomerang Bro, Fire Bro, Ice Bro, Red Yoshi, Black Shy Guy, Pink Shy Guy, Toad (Pit Crew), Monty Mole, Birdo (Light Blue), Birdo (Yellow), Red Koopa (Freerunning)	0.3103%
Super karts	Zucchini, Egg 1, Daytripper, Mach 8, Cloud 9, Soda Jet, Koopa Clown, Poltergust 4000, Royale, Barrel Train, Turbo Yoshi, Blue Seven, Flame Flyer, Para-Wing, Super Blooper, Turbo Birdo, Streamliner, DK Jumbo, Red Turbo Yoshi, Light-blue Turbo Birdo, Yellow Turbo Birdo	0.3333%
Super gliders	Flower Glider, Peach Parasol, BaNaNa Parafoil, Bob-omb Parafoil, Wario Wing, Oilpaper Umbrella, Shell Parachute, Blue Flower Glider, Pink Flower Glider, Waluigi Wing, ? Block, 8-Bit Jumping Mario, Eggshell Glider	0.2308%
Normal drivers	Koopa Troopa, Shy Guy, Dry Bones, Baby Daisy, Baby Luigi, Baby Mario, Baby Peach, Baby Rosalina, Iggy, Larry, Lemmy, Ludwig, Morton, Roy, Wendy	2.1333%
Normal karts	Birthday Girl, Landship, Bullet Blaster, Mushmellow, Biddybuggy, Pipe Frame, Pipe Buggy, Cheep Charger, Red Kiddie Kart, Koopa Dasher, Green Kiddie Kart	2.3636%
Normal gliders	Super Glider, Paper Glider, Parachute, Parafoil, Piston Glider, Droplet Glider, BBIA Parafoil, Piranha Plant Parafoil, Minion Paper Glider	1.7778%

Pirate Pipe 2

Class	Parts	Rate (each)
High-End spotlight driver	King Bob-omb	1.0000%
High-End spotlight kart	Silver Bullet Blaster	1.0000%
High-End drivers	Dry Bowser, Metal Mario, Pink Gold Peach, Pauline, Peachette, Bowser Jr. (Pirate), Ice Mario	0.1429%
High-End karts	B Dasher, Badwagon, Circuit Special, Bruiser, Wild Wing, Bumble V, Wildfire Flyer, Red B Dasher, P-Wing, Green Apple Kart, Poison Apple Kart, Dozer Dasher, Banana Master, Offroader, Pink Wing, Pirate Sushi Racer, Koopa King, Cact-X	0.0556%
High-End gliders	Swooper, Cloud Glider, Gold Glider, Pink Gold Paper Glider, Butterfly Sunset, Crimson Crane, Strawberry Donut, Heart Balloons, Tropical Glider, Great Sail	0.2000%
Super spotlight glider	Bob-omb Parafoil	1.0000%
Super drivers	Donkey Kong, Toad, Bowser, Luigi, Mario, Peach, Yoshi, Daisy, Lakitu, King Boo, Toadette, Bowser Jr., Waluigi, Wario, Rosalina, Birdo, Diddy Kong, Hammer Bro, Boomerang Bro, Fire Bro, Ice Bro, Red Yoshi, Black Shy Guy, Pink Shy Guy, Toad (Pit Crew), Monty Mole, Birdo (Light Blue), Birdo (Yellow), Red Koopa (Freerunning)	0.3103%
Super karts	Zucchini, Egg 1, Daytripper, Mach 8, Cloud 9, Soda Jet, Koopa Clown, Poltergust 4000, Royale, Barrel Train, Turbo Yoshi, Blue Seven, Flame Flyer, Para-Wing, Super Blooper, Turbo Birdo, Streamliner, DK Jumbo, Red Turbo Yoshi, Light-blue Turbo Birdo, Yellow Turbo Birdo	0.3333%
Super gliders	Flower Glider, Peach Parasol, BaNaNa Parafoil, Wario Wing, Oilpaper Umbrella, Shell Parachute, Lightning Oilpaper, Blue Flower Glider, Pink Flower Glider, Waluigi Wing, ? Block, 8-Bit Jumping Mario, Eggshell Glider	0.2308%
Normal drivers	Koopa Troopa, Shy Guy, Dry Bones, Baby Daisy, Baby Luigi, Baby Mario, Baby Peach, Baby Rosalina, Iggy, Larry, Lemmy, Ludwig, Morton, Roy, Wendy	2.1333%
Normal karts	Birthday Girl, Landship, Bullet Blaster, Mushmellow, Biddybuggy, Pipe Frame, Pipe Buggy, Cheep Charger, Red Kiddie Kart, Koopa Dasher, Green Kiddie Kart	2.3636%
Normal gliders	Super Glider, Paper Glider, Parachute, Parafoil, Piston Glider, Droplet Glider, BBIA Parafoil, Piranha Plant Parafoil, Minion Paper Glider	1.7778%

Bowser's Minions Pipe

Class	Parts	Rate (each)
High-End drivers	Dry Bowser, King Boo (Luigi's Mansion), Dry Bones (Gold)	2.0000%
Super drivers	Bowser, King Boo, Hammer Bro, Boomerang Bro, Fire Bro, Ice Bro	4.0000%
Normal drivers	Dry Bones, Iggy, Larry, Lemmy, Ludwig, Morton, Roy, Wendy	8.7500%

Event Shop

The limited-time event where event tokens appear will last from August 18, 2020 to August 25, 2020. However, the shop will be available for two more days until August 27, 2020 for players to spend any already collected event tokens.

Event Shop (August 4, 2020 - August 13, 2020)
Ruby ×3 50 Amount: 5	Coin ×500 30 Amount: 5	Coin Rush ticket 20 Amount: 1
Bowser Jr. 50 Amount: 1	Koopa Clown 50 Amount: 1	Parafoil 15 Amount: 3
Point-boost ticket (driver) 10 Amount: 3	Point-boost ticket (kart) 10 Amount: 3	Point-boost ticker (glider) 10 Amount: 3
Item ticket 5 Amount: 10	Level-boost ticket (Normal) 50 Amount: 2	Level-boost ticket (Super) 100 Amount: 1
Star ticket 20 Amount: 3	Points-cap ticket (Normal) 100 Amount: 1	Points-cap ticket (Super) 200 Amount: 1

Profiles

• Mario Kart Tour Twitter:
  • "The Wild West Tour is wrapping up in #MarioKartTour. Starting Aug. 11, 11 PM PT, you can set sail for the Pirate Tour! Speaking of which, is that a pirate hat? What seaworthy swashbuckler could it belong to?"
  • "It's time for the Pirate Tour! The DS Airship Fortress course makes its debut in Mario Kart Tour. It's a long way down from this floating fortress, so make sure you stay on course!"
  • "The Bowser's Minions Pipe is available from Aug 15, 11 PM PT, to Aug 20, 10:59 PM PT. You'll find Dry Bones (Gold), King Boo, and even the King of the Koopas himself in this limited-time pipe."
  • "Who would make a perfect portrait for #MKTPerfectShot in the Pirate Tour? Why, Bullet Bill, of course! You can find them everywhere you look in #MarioKartTour as a special item, being fired out of cannons, and even in the design of karts! What's your favorite Bullet Bill cameo?"
  • "The Pirate Tour is almost over. Thanks for racing! Next up in #MarioKartTour is the Summer Festival Tour!"

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Spanish	Temporada pirata	Pirate Season
French	Saison des pirates	Pirates' Season
German	Piraten-Tour Piraten-Tour-Saison (officially)	Pirates' Season Tour
Italian	Tour dei pirati	Pirates' Tour
Portuguese	Temporada Pirata	Pirate Season
Chinese (Simplified)	海盗巡回赛 Hǎidào Xúnhuísài	Pirate Tour
Chinese (Traditional)	海盜巡迴賽 Hǎidào Xúnhuísài	Pirate Tour