List of official Mario Kart 8 Deluxe tournaments

This is a list of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe competitions held or sanctioned by Nintendo. For official competitions held in the game's Wii U version, see Mario Kart 8 § Official competitions.

Notes:
 * The sections on this page are ordered by the starting date of their first listed tournament, except for the "Other tournaments" sections which are listed last.
 * Top players of a given tournament are listed only if they were announced by the promoter themselves (usually Nintendo).
 * Any piece of information not immediately followed by a citation is derived from the images or website(s) linked in each entry.

Tencent tournaments
The following Mario Kart 8 Deluxe tournaments were sponsored by.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Summit Invitational Tournament
The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Summit Invitational Tournament (《马力欧卡丁车8 豪华版》“巅峰邀请赛”) was an event in 2020 which consisted of two phases: an online qualifier (held July 18, 2020, detailed below) and an offline competition (held July 31, 2020 in ). The top four players in the qualifier would go on to participate in the offline competition against four other "mystery guests". The event was promoted on the Nintendo Switch account operated by Tencent on.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe National Battle Team Open Tournament
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe National Battle Team Open Tournament (《马力欧卡丁车8 豪华版》全民战队公开赛) refers to the online period of a team-based tournament announced on May 18, 2021. It consisted of a series of qualifying rounds which determined 16 teams that would compete in a separate season. The top 4 teams of said season would then advance to the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Open Team Championship, held locally. The qualifying rounds had a total of 119 participating teams and amounted to 287 individual races.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Open Team Championship
 Infographic for the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Open Team Championship Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Open Team Championship (《马力欧卡丁车8 豪华版》全民战队公开赛) was a competition held in Shanghai on August 1, 2021, following the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe National Battle Team Open Tournament. It was divided into two sessions: a friendly match that occurred between 17:00 and 19:00 CST, and the main final which began at 19:00 CST. The teams that competed in the event were named CCH, Boo2, HYG, and LNH. Teams HYG and LNH battled for the championship, while CCH and Boo2 competed in the third-place match. The event was presented by e-sports commentators Píngguǒ, Kěn shū, and Yan Zijing GwAwa, and was broadcast live officially on several platforms including, Bilibili, , , , and.

NOA 150cc Tournament / NOA Battlethon
In the month following the game's international release, Nintendo of America hosted two weekly in-game tournaments: one for 150cc races and one for Battle Mode matches.

Nintendo VS UK Cup
Nintendo VS UK Cup is a tournament running every weekend.

Nintendo UK VS Cup
Nintendo UK VS Cup was a recurring tournament open only to residents of the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was held every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday from April 7, 2020 to June 14, 2020.

The tournaments ran concurrently with a promotional contest held by NintendoUK on, in which participants had to share video clips of their race with a specific hashtag for the day in which they joined the tournament. Entries for a certain tournament day could be submitted to the competition until the final day of the tournament; subsequently, one winning entry was selected for each tournament day, and its corresponding Twitter user was awarded £10 in Nintendo eShop credit.

The following hashtags were to be used by participating Twitter users:
 * Tuesday: #MarioKartUKTues
 * Thursday: #MarioKartUKThurs
 * Saturday: #MarioKartUKSat
 * Sunday: #MarioKartUKSun

#TorneoMK8D
In parallel, Nintendo held a contest on Twitter in which competitors had to share a screenshot or video of their tournament gameplay with the hashtag "#TorneoMK8D" for a chance to win €10 on their Nintendo eShop account. The following five Twitter users were selected as winners:
 * SergioCascant12
 * Enfant14
 * Samu17052002
 * Adolfo20022
 * frossendo

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Super Saturdays
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Super Saturdays, also referred to as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe AU & NZ Super Saturdays, Nintendo AUNZ Super Saturdays , or Mario Kart 8 Deluxe AUNZ Super Saturdays and known in-game as "AUNZ Super Saturday", were tournaments promoted by Nintendo's social media accounts for Australian and New Zealander audiences. They were held every Saturday between August 15, 2020 and October 31, 2020.

Nintendo HK 2021 Cup
The Nintendo HK 2021 Cup tournament was open to residents of Hong Kong.

Mario Kart AU/NZ My Nintendo Cup
The Mario Kart AU/NZ My Nintendo Cup, also written as Mario Kart AUNZ My Nintendo Cup and known in-game as "AUNZ My Nintendo Cup",   was a series of tournaments held every Sunday from July 18 to August 1, 2021. The tournaments were open only to residents of Australia and New Zealand.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Holiday Fun Run
Nintendo of America used this tournament to promote a free 7-day Nintendo Switch Online trial subscription for My Nintendo members.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Online Challenge
The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Online Challenge (マリオカート8 デラックス オンラインチャレンジ) was an online tournament open to residents of Japan. It was part of a number of Online Challenges held across Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and Splatoon 2 which acted as qualifiers for the tournaments at Nintendo Live 2022. Players could only register for the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Online Challenge by way of an invitation received from Nintendo of Japan via e-mail; to be eligible for the invitation, players needed a Nintendo Account with an e-mail notification setting enabled. These conditions had to be satisfied until August 14, 2021, and the registration itself could be performed until August 19, 2021. The top four players of the online tournament went on to participate in the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Online Challenge Final Stage.

One hundred tournament participants were selected at random to receive a limited edition Mario Kart 8 Deluxe-themed folding fan.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe North American Qualifier 2022
The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe North American Qualifier 2022, known in-game as "Mario Kart Qualifier", was a three-day online tournament open only to residents of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Top players of the tournament were invited to compete at the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Championship Cup 2023 tournament.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Championship Cup 2022
The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Championship Cup 2022 was an invitational competition at, whose participants were the top twelve players of the Mario Kart North American Open July 2022. The competition was held in conjunction with the Splatoon 3 Enter the Splatlands Invitational 2022. Commented by sports announcer, esports announcer "EEvisu", and Mario Kart North American Open champion "BearUNLV", the tournament was streamed live on Nintendo of America's official YouTube and Twitch channels. It took place over 8 races, in courses drawn from the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass by the competitors themselves.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Online Challenge Final Stage
The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Online Challenge Final Stage (マリオカート8 デラックス オンラインチャレンジ 決勝ステージ) was an invitational tournament held at the Nintendo Live 2022 event. The participants were the four best players of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Online Challenge.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe North American Qualifier 2023
The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe North American Qualifier 2023 was an open tournament held in the Nintendo Free Play Area at on March 25, 2023. The tournament consisted of two separate events which, along with the online-held Mario Kart 8 Deluxe North American Qualifier 2022, decided a number of contestants who would go on to participate in the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Championship Cup 2023. In order to participate in either event, attendants had to first reserve a Warp Pipe Pass.

Starting with 144 players, each event consisted of three rounds that would gradually narrow down the number of competitors to 12. The format of an event was as follows:
 * the first round consisted of 3 phases, each of which divided competitors into 4 groups dubbed "Group A", "Group B", "Group C", and "Group D". After 4 races, the top 4 players of each group advanced to the second round.
 * in the second round, the top 4 players from the groups sharing the same designation across round 1's phases competed against each other (i.e. the top 4 players of Groups A from each of the three phases competed against each other etc.) After 4 races, the top 3 players of each group advanced to the third round.
 * in the third round, the top 3 players of each group in round 2 competed against each other. The top 3 players by the end of the event were determined the Grand Prize Winners, while the other players who competed in round 3 were determined the First Prize Winners.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Championship Cup 2023
The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Championship Cup 2023 was an invitational tournament at PAX East 2023 whose participants were selected from the top players of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe North American Qualifier 2022 and the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe North American Qualifier 2023. It preceded the Splatoon 3 North American Championship 2023. Jordan Kent and "BearUNLV" returned from the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Championship Cup 2022 to provide commentary for the tournament.

Tencent tournaments


Others
