Nintendo UK is today announcing an all-new Mario Kart 7 tournament for Mario Kart fans in the UK and Ireland to commemorate the launch of the first Mario Kart game, Super Mario Kart for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), just over 20 years ago on August 27th 1992 in Japan. Boy and girl racers will battle in regional online communities for a highly coveted place in the Grand Final in Birmingham on October 27th this year. The online tournament will run alongside this summer’s Mario Kart 7 Britain’s Fastest Family tournament, adding to the summer of Mario Kart fun for Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL fans.
To inch one step closer to winning the limited edition Leaf Cup trophy and other awesome prizes, Mario Kart racers are encouraged to head to www.nintendo.co.uk/mk7competition for details on how to get involved in the 3D kart action. Users simply need to join the official community in their area, signing in with the Mario Kart 7 username they use when playing the game on their Nintendo 3DS console.
The qualifying stages will be fought out in 10 online communities, with both a male and female community in the 5 regions of England, Scotland, Wales, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The competition will be fierce, demanding a balance of skill and dedication, with only the top two competitors from each community qualifying for the Grand Final in October. The two qualifiers from each community will receive a Shell Cup, a copy of New Super Mario Bros 2 and a goody bag. Racers who narrowly miss out on the final will not leave empty-handed, with a goody bag and a Shell Cup presented to those finishing in 3rd place in each community.
The Grand Final, which will also see the Britain’s Fastest Family tournament finale played out, will see the contestants split into boy and girl categories with 10 male and 10 female finalists challenging for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. With exclusive prizes up for grabs, expect no-holds-barred racing! The male and female winners will both receive the spectacular Leaf Cup trophy and those in 2nd place will win the Special Cup. What’s more, the top three male and female finalists will receive every upcoming first party game for Nintendo 3DS for the next 12 months, starting November 2012.
Nintedward will be victorious on this day ……..
If anyone looooooves MK7 like I do then – 1289-8932-1209 , bitches
I’m registered !!! why cant we win a Honda Jazz like Britain’s fastest family , I would love a Honda Jazz to add to my car collection (which I don’t have)
where is the ‘nickname’ they ask for? is it just your mii name at the bottom?
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/mk7competition not working for anyone else?
Works for me :-)
Works fine for me and i’m from Australia. :P
No Aussie rules aloud!!!! We know what you are like camping behind first place avoiding that blue shell :P!!!!!
That sucks. Americans can’t participate. :/
Well, I was just wrecking this fool and he quit so I got no points. Isn’t this going to be a problem?
“Nintendo holds online MK7 Tournament”
-Yay!
“In the UK”
-Aww!
That’s sucks…
And it’s weird that’s the tournament is divided to male and females. That’s not how we do it in motor sports…
where do i find my nickname? lol
the link on the page just takes me to my fb homepage :/
Even though I love Nintendo games, Nintendo as a company still lives in medieval ages when it comes to morality.
Dividing into male and female groups over a game online?!
That’s so stupid and serves no point at all.
and how do you know if they are dividing the two? sometimes its just for information purposes.
ah, i see they have them divided up on the other page… sure it just means more prizes :)
This is pretty cool! If only I didn’t sell my MK7… But I have 2 friends who would definitely love to enter this
It would be better diving it into Age groups not gender.
Lots of girls out there who owns playing games.
they are doing it in uk because the game is not as successful there.
Sounds fun!! Just UK Though D: