Peach vs. Bowser Tour (May 2022)

The Peach vs. Bowser Tour was the seventieth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on May 18, 2022 and ended on May 31, 2022. This tour was the seventh to feature a Team Rally event, pitting Team Peach against Team Bowser, as well as being the second Team Rally to feature teams from previous tours: Team Peach from the Peach vs. Daisy Tour and the Mario vs. Peach Tour, and Team Bowser from the Bowser vs. DK Tour, both the winners of their respective Team Rally tours. This tour also introduced Koopa Cape from Mario Kart Wii as a classic course, as well as Dr. Peach and Dr. Bowser from Dr. Mario World as new drivers as part of a two-tour Doctor Fest event with the previous tour, the 2022 Doctor Tour, making this the first Team Rally tour to introduce more than one driver. Two new variants of the Capsule Kart, the Pink Capsule Kart and the Green-Yellow Capsule Kart, were also introduced, making this the first tour since the 2021 Los Angeles Tour 21 tours prior where the only karts introduced are variants of the same kart. This is the only tour in 2022 to feature GBA Bowser's Castle 2, but not its R/T variant until the Bowser Tour (2023), twenty-five tours later.

This tour retained the Doctor Challenges that started in the previous tour while also featuring upgraded items in the Token Shop, including Mario (Classic), King Bob-omb, the Wildfire Flyer, the Koopa King, and a High-End pipe.

A new Mii Racing Suit based on a ? Block was released as part of Wave 6 of Mii Racing Suits, making this the first Mii Racing Suit introduced after Wave 1 in the 2022 Mii Tour to not be based on a character. The ? Block Mii Racing Suit could be earned by placing 1st in ranked in tier 50 or above. For the first time, the Mii Racing Suit Shop only featured returning Mii Racing Suits from previous waves.

This tour's Coin Rush course was Wii Koopa Cape. The menu's background featured a mountain and a large green Koopa Shell from Koopa Cape as the landmark for this tour.

Team Bowser finished with 52% of team tokens, winning the Team Rally. The title screen was changed to represent this victory in the Metropolitan Tour. This was the first and currently only Team Rally in which a team with Peach as its captain lost. This was also the last Team Rally to have the title screen change to an image of the winning team's captain driver in a later tour.

Starting from this tour, Chargin' Chuck is available in regular tour pipes, including the All-Clear Pipe.

For the first time following the introduction of the Tokens Aplenty event in the 2021 Autumn Tour sixteen tours prior, there were no Tokens Aplenty events in this tour, though event tokens appeared more regularly.

A rematch of this Team Rally began in November 2022, making this the second Team Rally to receive one. The rematch also makes Peach vs. Bowser the first Team Rally to be done more than once in the same year.

Special pipes

 * Names in other languages
 * Team Peach Pipe


 * Team Bowser Pipe

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

Today's Challenge
Players' most recently used kart and glider are chosen, and favorite and favored ones have extra priority. Opponents are arranged randomly. On day 1 of this tour, players finish a race in 3DS Daisy Hills in the Mii Cup using the Birdo Mii Racing Suit for a free pipe launch. Starting from day 2, players have to finish a race in the earliest incomplete 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. Once all of the courses are completed, the courses are selected at random.

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

All-Clear Pipe
The All-Clear Pipe randomly shoots 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 team tokens appear began on May 18, 2022 and ended on May 31, 2022. Event tokens could be earned by collecting them on courses using a driver from the player's selected team.

Tier Shop
The shop features 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.

Peach vs. Bowser Showdown
On May 18, 2022, a "Peach vs. Bowser Showdown" contest was launched by the official Mario Kart Tour social media accounts to promote the Peach vs. Bowser Tour. Across two rounds, the accounts would ask users to choose between several subjects related to either Team Peach or Team Bowser, with the English and Japanese Twitter accounts opening a poll for each round so as to tally the user choices as a percentage. The team whose related subject garnered the most votes by the end of a round's poll period would win the round. Unlike in the previously-held Wario vs. Waluigi Showdown, the teams in the Peach vs. Bowser Showdown were not awarded points for winning a round, and the contest did not conclude with an overall winner.

The following are the rounds in this showdown, with final vote percentages from both the English and the Japanese Twitter polls. For each round, winning subjects have their vote percentages written in bold and their bars colored blue.