New Year's Tour (2023)

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New Year's Tour
The 2023 New Year's Tour from Mario Kart Tour
Start date December 27, 2022
10:00 p.m. (PT)
End date January 10, 2023
9:59 p.m. (PT)
Number of cups 15
Ranked cups Mario Cup (week 1)
Luigi Cup (week 2)
Coin Rush course N64 Kalimari Desert
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The New Year's Tour is the eighty-sixth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on December 28, 2022 and ends on January 10, 2023. It introduces the R/T variants of multiple returning classic courses, namely GBA Sky Garden, GBA Cheep-Cheep Island, GBA Bowser's Castle 3, GCN Baby Park, Wii Koopa Cape, and 3DS Piranha Plant Slide, making this the first tour since the Vancouver Tour to introduce three or more R/T variants of returning courses, as well as the first tour since the Samurai Tour to only introduce R/T variants and no brand new courses, and the first tour since the Toad vs. Toadette Tour to only feature R/T variants (excluding the battle courses). Kadomatsu also return from the previous New Year's-themed tours, starting from January 1, 2023.

This is the first tour since the Singapore Tour, the first tour of 2022, to feature SNES Mario Circuit 1, making it the classic course with the longest gap of appearances between tours. It is also the first tour since the Samurai Tour, twenty tours ago, to feature DS Waluigi Pinball.

The Coin Rush course for this tour is N64 Kalimari Desert, which was previously the case in both the Wild West Tour and the 2021 Los Angeles Tour. The menu's background features some beanstalks and a Toad House from GBA Sky Garden as the landmark for this tour, which was reused from the Sky Tour.

The Holiday Celebration continues from the previous tour and ends in this tour. The tour features a new set of Premium Challenges exclusive to this tour called the Gold Premium Challenges, which allows the player to fire four golden pipes and receive a total of 42 rubies. Completing all the challenges rewards players with the Gold Hard Hat Balloon. Similar to the New Year's 2022 Tour and the Bangkok Tour, every day of this tour features either the Coins Aplenty or Tokens Aplenty event. Tokens Aplenty will be held on the third and ninth day of the tour (Friday, December 30, 2022 and Thursday, January 5, 2022), while Coins Aplenty will be held on all other days, gradually upgrading over time and allowing players to receive over 20,000 coins by participating every day. The tour also features an upgraded Token Shop with items like High-End level-boost tickets and a golden High-End pipe. Additionally, all Mii Racing Suits in the Mii Racing Suit Shop have a discount on their first purchase.

For the first half of the tour, players can receive the Black Mii Racing Suit and the Purple Dozer for placing high in the ranked cups. The second half of the tour features the ? Block Mii Racing Suit (which returns as a ranked reward for the third time) and Green Toad (Pit Crew) as high placement rewards.

The twelfth set of Expert Challenges was introduced in this tour.

Spotlight Shop

Week 1 banner items
December 27, 2022, 10:00 p.m. (PT) – January 3, 2023, 9:59 p.m. (PT)
Item type Name Cost Contents Banner image
Driver Builder Mario 105   rubies for 1st purchase;
150 rubies for 2nd and 3rd purchases respectively
 
Builder Mario ×1
 
Glider Yellow Hard Hat Balloon 70   rubies for 1st purchase;
100 rubies for 2nd and 3rd purchases respectively
 
Yellow Hard Hat Balloon ×1
 
Week 2 banner items
January 3, 2023, 10:00 p.m. (PT) – January 10, 2023, 9:59 p.m. (PT)
Item type Name Cost Contents Banner image
Driver Builder Luigi 105   rubies for 1st purchase;
150 rubies for 2nd and 3rd purchases respectively
 
Builder Luigi ×1
 
Glider Fuzzy Kite 70   rubies for 1st purchase;
100 rubies for 2nd and 3rd purchases respectively
 
Fuzzy Kite ×1
 

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 balloon battle in GBA Battle Course 1 in the Mii Cup using the Nabbit 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.

Day(s) Reward
1-13  
Free pipe launch
14
Badge
Today's Challenge Pipe
 
Pipe contents
Rubies, coins, driver (Normal/Super/High-End), kart (Normal/Super/High-End), glider (Normal/Super/High-End), item tickets

Rewards

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

  30   55
   
Gold New Year's Kite Wild Gold


Grand Stars   15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 Total Grand total
Pipes                     10 26
                                16
Coins   500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 5000 15000
5000 5000 10000
Rubies   10 5 3 3 21 56
15 10 10 35
Item tickets   5 5 10 30
10 10 20
Star tickets   2 3 5 5
0
Quick tickets   1 1 4
3 3
Point-boost tickets   1 1 1 3 8
5 5
  1 1 1 3 8
5 5
  1 1 1 3 8
5 5
Level-boost tickets       3 22
 
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        19

New content

Drivers

Mii Racing Suits

Karts

Gliders

Courses

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Japanese ニューイヤーツアー
Nyū Iyā Tsuā
New Year Tour

Chinese (simplified) 新年巡回赛
Xīnnián Xúnhuísài
New Year Tour

Chinese (traditional) 新年巡迴賽
Xīnnián Xúnhuísài
New Year Tour

French Saison du Nouvel An
New Year's Season
German Neujahrs-Tour-Saison
New Year's Tour Season
Italian Tour di Capodanno
New Year's Day Tour
Korean 뉴 이어 투어
Nyu Ieo Tueo
New Year Tour

Portuguese Temporada de Ano-Novo
New Year Season
Spanish Temporada de Año Nuevo
New Year Season

References