Battle Tour

The Battle Tour was the eightieth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on October 5, 2022 and ended on October 18, 2022. It will be rerun from October 4, 2023 to October 17, 2023 as the game's hundred-and-sixth tour overall and the first tour following the end of new in-game content.

As the tour's name indicates, it introduced Battle Mode as a new playable mode in both single-player and multiplayer, specifically Balloon Battle, with Battle Course 1 from Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Cookie Land from Mario Kart: Double Dash!! being the first battle courses. However, due to a glitch that caused multiplayer levels to get lowered, multiplayer was unplayable throughout the tour's initial run in 2022. The tour was also heavily food-themed, introducing Luigi in a chef outfit and several food-themed karts and gliders. In addition to the new Battle Mode content, a new remix course based on the Donut Plains courses from Super Mario Kart known as RMX Donut Plains 1 debuted in this tour.

The Autumn Celebration event began in this tour. Like the Winter Celebration in the Wario vs. Waluigi, 2022 Los Angeles, and Sky Tours, the event lasted for three tours, ending in the 2022 Autumn Tour. This marked the first time a new event began immediately after a previous one had ended.

Starting from this tour, the maximum player level has been increased to level 400, the maximum tier has been increased to 99, the maximum grade has been increased to S+9, the base-point cap for drivers, karts, and gliders has been increased, many items were added to the Daily Selects, and tour gifts now mainly contain free pipe launches. Premium Challenges++ have also been added to the game. The number of cups in each tour has also been raised to fifteen (making this the first tour since the Mario Bros. Tour sixty-eight tours prior to have more than twelve). Due to this, every race course in the tour had all four variants appear, making this the first tour to feature all four variants of every race course that appeared in it.

This was the first tour to not have the regular weekly pipes that could be fired by rubies and contained spotlight items, which were replaced by the Spotlight Shop introduced in this tour, including the removal of the spotlight items in the regular weekly pipe being raised to a higher shelf in the second or third course of cups during their featured tour, making Mii Racing Suits the only ones that can be raised to a higher shelf. Due to the major changes, the tutorial for new players was also altered.

The eleventh set of Expert Challenges was made available at the start of this tour in 2022 and lasted until the end of the 2022 Holiday Tour.

A new bonus challenge called Precision Gliding debuted in this tour in 2022, in which the player glides through targets to earn points towards a larger target worth more points.

This tour's Coin Rush course was SNES Choco Island 1, which was reused from the Peach vs. Daisy Tour. The menu's background featured the Yoshi Cookies from Cookie Land as the landmark for this tour.

As of this tour's debut, a large number of drivers, karts, and gliders, including Kamek, Tanooki Mario, Daisy (Farmer), the Tropical Truck, the Goo-Goo Buggy, the Luigi Parafoil, and the Rose Parasol, are available in regular tour pipes, including the All-Clear Pipe.

Daily Spotlight
The Daily Spotlight contains a mixture of items themed around the tour, items that have ranked tracks as favorites, and gold items. The rates listed are specific for that type of item; drivers, karts, and gliders are selected separately.

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 SNES Choco Island 2R in the Mii Cup using the Green 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.

Update Log-in Bonus
The 10-day Update Log-in Bonus only appeared during the tour's debut in 2022 and served as the log-in bonus for this tour.

New content
The following content was introduced during the tour's debut in 2022.

Balloon designs
Of all the balloon designs introduced in this tour (other than the default balloon), the Boo-shaped and heart-shaped balloons are not obtainable in this tour.

Gold Pipe
The Gold Pipe, including 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 event tokens appear began on October 5, 2022 and ended on October 18, 2022. Event tokens could be earned by collecting them on courses and by hitting Jack-o'-lanterns.

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. Starting from this tour, drivers, karts, and gliders are no longer offered in the Tier Shop.

Trivia

 * The banner for Luigi (Chef) depicts him driving on Tokyo Blur 2R/T, despite the course not being available in this tour.
 * From this tour's debut onwards, except the 2023 Bowser Tour with GBA Bowser's Castle 4 (which was additionally the only course to ever release without a T variant), all courses were released with R/T variants.