Sydney Tour (September 2021)

The Sydney Tour was the fifty-second tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on September 8, 2021 and ended on September 21, 2021. It was the first tour to share a title with a tour that was released in the same year, and to share its trailer background color (orange-to-cyan gradient) with the first tour. This is the third tour where a new version of the same city appears in the same year, the first tour was Holiday Tour (2019), and the second tour was Summer Festival Tour. The tour introduced a new layout of the Sydney Sprint course, named Sydney Sprint 2. It also introduced a yellow -themed variant of Yoshi, as well as Pink Yoshi as a reward for placing high in the ranked cups. The Ocean Pipe returned in this tour, with the Polka-Dot Manta Glider and Starry Great Sail being added to the aforementioned special pipe, while a new glider called the Ship's Wheel also appeared in this special pipe. The original Sydney Sprint course also returns in this tour.

This tour's Coin Rush course was Sydney Sprint, which was reused from the April–May 2021 Sydney Tour. The menu's background featured the as the landmark for this tour, which was also reused from the aforementioned tour.

Starting from this tour, White Yoshi and the Iron Cucumber are available in all regular tour pipes, including the All-Clear Pipe.

Special pipe
Names in other languages

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

Today's Challenge
Players' most recently used kart and glider are chosen, and favourite and favored ones have extra priority. Opponents are arranged randomly. On day 1 of this tour, players finish a race in SNES Donut Plains 2 in the Kamek Cup using King Bob-omb 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 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 8, 2021 and ended on September 21, 2021. The method of earning event tokens was listed as "Cause opponents to crash" on the cup selection screen, but they were actually earned from 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 Kamek Tour is wrapping up in blue. Next up is the Sydney Tour! First we had a koala, but what's next?"
 * "Soak up the sunshine by the ocean in blue! The Sydney Sprint 2 city course takes center stage in the Sydney Tour!"

Trivia

 * This was the second tour after the 1st Anniversary Tour to have two variants of the same course in a cup, namely Sydney Sprint 2 (both the regular and Trick variant of the course appeared in the Yoshi Cup, and the Reverse and Reverse/Trick variant of the course appeared in the Baby Mario Cup).
 * This was also the first tour to include all four variations of a single track in the tour's ranked cups, with the regular and Trick versions of Sydney Sprint 2 being featured in the first week's ranked cup and the Reverse and Reverse/Trick versions being featured in the second week's ranked cup.
 * Despite Kamek not being available during this tour, the Kamek Cup appeared.
 * This was the second tour to not contain any 3DS courses, the first being the Kamek Tour.