2nd Anniversary Tour

The 2nd Anniversary Tour is the fifty-third tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on September 22, 2021 and will end on October 5, 2021. As the tour's name indicates, it celebrates 2 years since the official launch of Mario Kart Tour on September 25, 2019. This tour introduced a new layout of the New York Minute course, named New York Minute 4, and it is also the first tour to consist of only city-themed new courses, which makes this tour the only one to not feature any classic courses and the second tour in a row to introduce a new city course. This is also the third tour to not introduce a new glider and first tour since the Hammer Bro Tour to only introduce Super drivers, being Birdo (Blue), who is available as a reward for placing high in the ranked cups alongside the Blue Turbo Birdo. This tour is also the fifth one to features two special pipes, with one being shown earlier than the previous tours, and the fourth one to feature the 2-Player Challenge. The tour also has new unique challenges, as well as an upgraded Token Shop with some half price items.

This tour's Coin Rush course is London Loop, which was reused from the London Tour. The menu's background featured the as the landmark for this tour, which was reused from the New York Tour, Holiday Tour, and the 1st Anniversary Tour.

Signature kart sets
Drivers with a corresponding cup were bumped one rank up in every course of their cup.

Today's Challenge
Players' karts, gliders and opponents are chosen or arranged randomly. On day 1 of this tour, players finish a race in Vancouver Velocity T in the Hammer Bro Cup using Ice Mario for a free pipe launch. Starting from day 2, players have to finish a race in the earliest uncleared course that is not in any of the ranked cups using the driver shown on the course's thumbnail every day to obtain the corresponding reward in the table below.

Rewards
Gold cells indicate rewards that are exclusive to Gold Pass members.

All-Clear Pipe
The All-Clear Pipe randomly shot out one of the following regular High-End items. The appearance rate can be viewed via the "Pipe content" link on the Gold Pass purchase screen.

Token Shop
The limited-time event where event tokens appeared began on September 22, 2021 and will end until October 5, 2021. Event tokens could be earned by collecting them in courses.

Tier Shop
The shop featured a variety of set and randomized items available for purchase. The item slots in the shop are unlocked based on the highest tier of players.

Profiles

 * Mario Kart Tour Twitter:
 * "The Sydney Tour is wrapping up in blue. Next up is the 2nd Anniversary Tour, which will have you racing through eight cities!"
 * "It's time for the 2nd Anniversary Tour! Let's celebrate two years since blue was released! Some heated races are about to kick off across eight city courses, and it all starts today!"

Trivia

 * Because this tour only features city courses, this is the first tour to not include any SNES courses.
 * This is also the second tour to not include any N64 courses, the first being the 2019 Paris Tour.
 * This is also the third tour to not contain any 3DS courses, the first being the Kamek Tour and the second being the September 2021 Sydney Tour.