This Week's Ranking
- See also: All-Cup Ranking
This Week's Ranking,[1] also referred to as simply rankings,[2] is a competitive feature in Mario Kart Tour wherein each player is ranked against nineteen other random players based on their total score in a given cup for the duration of one week. The ranking is dynamic, with players potentially overtaking each other on the leaderboard as the week progresses. The quality of a player's opponents is determined by that player's tier, which changes depending on the player's placement by the end of one ranking cycle. Placing sufficiently by the end of the ranking cycle high nets the player in-game rewards, such as rubies, coins, drivers, and vehicle parts.
A related aspect of the game, the Friend Ranking, prompts the player to compete alongside their in-game friends for a collective high score within the same cup eligible for This Week's Ranking.
Overview[edit]
Every Wednesday at 10:00 p.m. PT, a new cup of the current tour is selected to host a ranking mode. For one week, the player is automatically added to two rankings corresponding to that cup, namely This Week's Ranking and the Friend Ranking, each with different conditions. Tapping on an opponent's listing in a leaderboard leads directly to the "Tour Records" section of their player profile, which shows the scores they attained in the three ranking-eligible courses of the current week.
This Week's Ranking[edit]
In This Week's Ranking, a player competes against nineteen others for the highest total score across all courses in that cup, except for its bonus challenge. The game randomly draws these nineteen opponents from its playerbase. However, the player facing these opponents may not appear as an opponent to them in turn.[3][A]
Each player is assigned a tier, which is influenced by their placement at the end of a ranking cycle. Depending on this placement, the player is promoted, demoted, or kept at a certain tier. This system helps group players of a similar skill level and loadout; thus, the higher one's tier is, the more challenging their opponents are likely to be. The following chart outlines the evolution of the player's tier based on their placement at different tiers.
| Placement | Tier change | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From tier 1 | From tier 21 | From tier 22 | From tier 25 | From tier 30 | From tier 35 | From tier 99 | ||
| 1 | +3 | +3 | +3 | +3 | +2 | +1 | 0 | |
| 2 | +3 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +1 | +1 | 0 | |
| 3 | +3 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | 0 | |
| 4 | +2 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | 0 | -1 | |
| 5 | +2 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | 0 | -1 | |
| 6 | +2 | +1 | +1 | +1 | 0 | -1 | -1 | |
| 7 | +1 | +1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -1 | |
| 8 | +1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |
| 9 | +1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |
| 10 | +1 | 0 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |
| 11–15 | 0 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |
| 16–19 | 0 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |
| 20 | 0 | -1 | -2 | -2 | -2 | -2 | -2 | |
A player's tier is updated only when they open the game again after a new ranking cycle begins. This means that if the player skips entire consecutive cycles by not playing the game, their tier remains unchanged until they participate in a new ranked cup.
Friend Ranking[edit]
In the Friend Ranking, introduced in the Baby Rosalina Tour, the player and their in-game friends try to achieve a group high score within the current week's ranked cup. While the cycles of the Friend Ranking overlap with those of This Week's Ranking, the former does not feature a tier system. In this ranking, there are three point thresholds for the players to reach. At the end of a ranking cycle, all players in the ranking receive a sum of coins for each point threshold they managed to surpass as a group. In the Flower Tour only, players received rubies instead of coins.
The following are the thresholds and their corresponding rewards during different periods of time:
| Total points of player and friends | Coins (until August 5, 2020) |
Coins (since August 12, 2020) |
Rubies (Flower Tour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50,000 | 100 | 100 | 2 |
| 80,000 | 500 | 300 | 3 |
| 150,000 | 1000 | 600 | 5 |
Related challenges[edit]
The game presents a series of challenges tied to the player's performance and progression within rankings. Each card of the Standard Challenges set labeled "2-1", "2-2", and onward includes one objective of reaching a given tier, ranging from tier 5 to 30. The Tier Challenges, permanently added at the start of the 2022 Mii Tour, feature a host of ranking-related objectives, including reaching certain tiers, securing first place multiple times in This Week's Ranking, racing on a ranked cup's course a number of times, and surpassing a certain score in a ranked cup. As of the 2023 Yoshi Tour, completing all Tier Challenges, which culminates in reaching tier 99, unlocks an additional card of Extreme Challenges, which focus on getting first place in This Week's Ranking a certain amount of times while in tier 99. Like other challenges in the game, completing any of the objectives so described rewards the player with rubies and a special badge. When clearing a challenge whose goal is reaching a certain tier, the player earns a badge indicating that tier.
Ranking Bonuses[edit]
The player can earn various rewards, called Ranking Bonuses,[8] by finishing somewhere within or slightly below the top half of the leaderboard in This Week's Ranking. The amount and quality of the Ranking Bonuses earned by the end of a cycle depends on the player's tier and placement. To view the rewards of a given position in the current week, the player has to click on the icon to the left of that position in the leaderboard.
General[edit]
Every ranking cycle so far has featured a selection of inventory items as Ranking Bonuses, such as rubies, coins, and point-boost tickets. As of the Cooking Tour, points-cap tickets are also included in the general pool of Ranking Bonuses. Points-boost tickets and points-cap tickets earned from rankings rotate between driver, kart, and glider tickets on a weekly basis.
The following chart shows the Ranking Bonuses earned for each placement and tier.
| Placement | Rewards | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From tier 1 | From tier 11 | From tier 21 | From tier 25 | From tier 30 | From tier 35 | From tier 40 | From tier 45 | From tier 50 | From tier 60 | From tier 80 | |
| 1 | Rubies ×20 Coins ×1,000 Point-boost tickets ×3 of each type |
Rubies ×25 Coins ×1,100 Point-boost tickets ×3 of each type |
Rubies ×25 Coins ×1,200 Point-boost tickets ×3 of each type |
Rubies ×25 Coins ×1,200 Point-boost tickets ×3 Points-cap tickets ×1 Normal |
Rubies ×25 Coins ×1,500 Point-boost tickets ×3 Points-cap tickets ×1 Super, ×1 Normal |
Rubies ×25 Coins ×1,500 Points-cap tickets ×2 High-End, ×2 Super, ×2 Normal |
Rubies ×25 Coins ×2,000 Points-cap tickets ×4 High-End, ×4 Super, ×4 Normal |
Rubies ×25 Coins ×2,000 Points-cap tickets ×5 High-End, ×5 Super, x5 Normal |
Rubies ×25 Coins ×2,000 Points-cap tickets ×6 High-End, ×6 Super, ×6 Normal |
Rubies ×25 Coins ×2,000 Points-cap tickets ×7 High-End, ×7 Super, ×7 Normal |
Rubies ×30 Coins ×2,000 Points-cap tickets ×8 High-End, ×8 Super, ×8 Normal |
| 2 | Rubies ×15 Coins ×1,000 Point-boost tickets ×2 of each type |
Rubies ×20 Coins ×1,100 Point-boost tickets ×2 of each type |
Rubies ×20 Coins ×1,200 Point-boost tickets ×2 of each type |
Rubies ×20 Coins ×1,200 Point-boost tickets ×2 Points-cap tickets ×1 Normal |
Rubies ×20 Coins ×1,200 Point-boost tickets ×2 Points-cap tickets ×1 Normal |
Rubies ×20 Coins ×1,200 Point-boost tickets ×3 Points-cap tickets ×1 Super, ×1 Normal |
Rubies ×20 Coins ×1,200 Points-cap tickets ×3 High-End, ×3 Super, ×3 Normal |
Rubies ×20 Coins ×1,200 Points-cap tickets ×4 High-End, ×4 Super, ×4 Normal |
Rubies ×20 Coins ×1,500 Points-cap tickets ×5 High-End, ×5 Super, ×5 Normal |
Rubies ×20 Coins ×1,500 Points-cap tickets ×6 High-End, ×6 Super, ×6 Normal |
Rubies ×20 Coins ×1,500 Points-cap tickets ×7 High-End, ×7 Super, ×7 Normal |
| 3 | Rubies ×10 Coins ×1,000 Point-boost tickets ×1 of each type |
Rubies ×15 Coins ×1,100 Point-boost tickets ×1 of each type |
Rubies ×15 Coins ×1,200 Point-boost tickets ×1 of each type |
Rubies ×15 Coins ×1,200 Point-boost tickets ×1 Points-cap tickets ×1 Normal |
Rubies ×15 Coins ×1,200 Point-boost tickets ×1 Points-cap tickets ×1 Normal |
Rubies ×15 Coins ×1,200 Point-boost tickets ×2 Points-cap tickets ×1 Normal |
Rubies ×15 Coins ×1,200 Points-cap tickets ×2 High-End, ×2 Super, ×2 Normal |
Rubies ×15 Coins ×1,200 Points-cap tickets ×3 High-End, ×3 Super, ×3 Normal |
Rubies ×15 Coins ×1,200 Points-cap tickets ×4 High-End, ×4 Super, ×4 Normal |
Rubies ×15 Coins ×1,200 Points-cap tickets ×5 High-End, ×5 Super, ×5 Normal |
Rubies ×15 Coins ×1,200 Points-cap tickets ×6 High-End, ×6 Super, ×6 Normal |
| 4 | Rubies ×5 Coins ×500 |
Rubies ×10 Coins ×600 |
Rubies ×10 Coins ×600 |
Rubies ×10 Coins ×600 |
Rubies ×10 Coins ×600 Point-boost tickets ×1 |
Rubies ×10 Coins ×600 Point-boost tickets ×1 |
Rubies ×10 Coins ×600 Points-cap tickets ×1 High-End, ×2 Super, ×2 Normal |
Rubies ×10 Coins ×600 Points-cap tickets ×2 High-End, ×2 Super, ×2 Normal |
Rubies ×10 Coins ×600 Points-cap tickets ×3 High-End, ×3 Super, ×3 Normal |
Rubies ×10 Coins ×600 Points-cap tickets ×4 High-End, ×4 Super, ×4 Normal |
Rubies ×10 Coins ×600 Points-cap tickets ×5 High-End, ×5 Super, ×5 Normal |
| 5 | |||||||||||
| 6 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Coins ×300 | Rubies ×5 Coins ×400 |
Rubies ×5 Coins ×400 |
Rubies ×5 Coins ×400 |
Rubies ×5 Coins ×400 |
Rubies ×5 Coins ×400 |
Rubies ×5 Coins ×400 Points-cap tickets ×2 Super, ×2 Normal |
Rubies ×5 Coins ×400 Points-cap tickets x1 High-End, ×1 Super, ×2 Normal |
Rubies ×5 Coins ×400 Points-cap tickets x1 High-End, ×2 Super, ×2 Normal |
Rubies ×5 Coins ×400 Points-cap tickets x2 High-End, ×2 Super, ×2 Normal |
Rubies ×5 Coins ×400 Points-cap tickets ×3 High-End, ×3 Super, ×3 Normal |
| 8 | |||||||||||
| 9 | |||||||||||
| 10 | |||||||||||
| 11–15 | No reward | ? | ? | Points-cap tickets ×1 Normal | Points-cap tickets ×1 Super, ×1 Normal | Points-cap tickets ×1 Super, ×1 Normal | Points-cap tickets ×1 High-end, ×1 Super, ×1 Normal | Points-cap tickets ×1 High-end, ×1 Super, ×1 Normal | |||
| 16–19 | No reward | ||||||||||
| 20 | No reward | ||||||||||
Tour-specific[edit]
In many tours, players are also awarded certain drivers, karts, and gliders for placing high in rankings. These items can be either Super or High-End, with High-End items requiring higher placements to obtain.
Below is a list of tour-specific Ranking Bonuses throughout the game's history.
