If Athens Dash is to be in the Feather Cup, then I suspect that Vancouver Velocity will be in the Acorn Cup, and by process of elimination, Los Angeles Laps in the Cherry Cup. If theme fit is how we're doing this, then this way arguably makes the most sense if you think about it. Athens and Los Angeles: hot summer vacation. Vancouver: cold snow.
@Swiftjar Albert Boris also explained in his Athens Dash video that it could be possible that Athens Dash could end up in the Spiny Cup in Wave 6 instead.
@Swiftjar I know I said this before, but at this point, if I have to hope for only 1 city that I'd love Nintendo to add into Mario Karts Tour and 8 Deluxe as a Mario Kart track, it needs to be... Rio de Janeiro Specfically taking place at nighttime during Carnaval, and featuring memorable / famous landmarks, locations, and festivities such as the Carnaval / Samba parades, Corcovado, Copacabana Beach, and more.
Great video as usual. Yeah, makes sense for Athens Dash to start the Feather Cup. LA Laps likely finishing that cup, a new city track starting the Cherry Cup (or Vancouver Velocity if a new track isn't ready for release), and Piranha Plant Cove finishing the Cherry Cup. That leaves SNES, GBA, Wii, and GCN courses for wave 5 if the datamines continue to be accurate. The exact placement order might be adjusted a bit as Nintendo be like that sometimes, but I'm thinking Bowser Castle, Sunset Wilds, Koopa Cape, and Daisy Cruiser in some order. We'll see. Looking forward to Athens Dash in Tour and with hopefully solid visuals in the Booster Pass. :)
5:45 Athens Dash will likely be in the Feather Cup part of Wave 5 since Feathers forms part of Greece 🇬🇷 Every Cups in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has a Icon Symbol that fits with a Track like: Golden Dash Cup: • 3DS - Toad's Circuit Luck Bell Cup: • Tour - Tokyo Blur • Tour - Ninja Hideaway Propeller Cup: • Wii - Mushroom Gorge • Sky High Sundae Rock Cup: • Tour - London Loop • 3DS - Rock Rock Mountain Moon Cup: • Tour - Merry Mountain • 3DS - Rainbow Road Fruit Cup: • Tour - Amsterdam Drift • GBA - Riverside Park • Yoshi's Island
Looking forward to see this course once it goes live in Tour and waiting to see Athens Dash 3 in the near future. Having it in the feather cup makes more sense and I don't mind it being the first course for that cup just like with London Loop.
Great analysis and prediction as always! From the little we've seen Athens Dash looks great, can't wait to race on it in Tour the day after tomorrow and later (hopefully in Wave 5 like you predicted) in 8 Deluxe, too!
I'm definitely looking forward to Athens Dash, it looks like a really cool city course and i hope it comes in the later waves (which it will like all the other tour tracks and it's really cool) 😄
Previously people said Paris Promenade and Berlin Byways had the most history behind their maps. But that was 2022, and Athens will easily steal the title. Glad to catch your analysis video after watching Albert Brosis'. I also love the seaside, the Mediterranean has to look absolutely majestic from pretty much everywhere. Thx for supplying us with this content, you continue to be a great RUclips force in the mario kart departments.
I predict thisll be the first track of the feather cup, because of a pattern Amsterdam, singapore and bangkok were the newest cities and they all got released in one wave Plus, i dont think itd fit as the ending because of l.a laps which is most likely section based
If you move the starting line, Los Angeles Laps could easily have three laps. Have it be around where the Oil Field's entrance is, on a road used in both the first and second variants. The first lap could be 1, the second could be 3 and the third could be 2.
At first I was like "-meh" because of the models and textures that looked a bit plain and rushed with the pillars and houses, but I trust the Mario Kart 8 Version to enhance the graphisms (as they did with the other tracks) and give us another spectacular track!
I’m curious since the next tour only has Athens Dash 1 + 2 if Athens Dash 3 will be in the urban area. I also wonder if they are planning Athens Dash 3 before bringing AD to the booster course pass. We still have 2 months minimum I think based on the past waves before wave 5 comes out, so they have some time.
Quite possibly!! I don’t think it matters to much if we get Athens 3 or not before MK8DX… I think Sydney Sprint released in MK8DX before Sydney Sprint 3 in Tour from memory. 😅
@@Swiftjar oh I didn’t know that! I don’t play Tour very often enough to notice the timeline like that haha. I’m a little more convinced now about Athens Dash being next regardless of an AD3 or not
Honestly, after seeing this track, I‘m definitely hyped for it! The name does deserve a change for future games, 8 Deluxe included, and speaking of which, for Wave 1, update the graphics for 3DS Toad Circuit, Wave 2, add the ball drop sound effect that activated as you exited the pinball table in DS Waluigi Pinball, Wave 3, the only change is in 3DS Rainbow Road, add any sound effects that were used in the original, as a bonus, in DS Peach Gardens, the Fountain roundabout at the beginning could have its barriers removed, and of course, Wave 4, in Tour Bangkok Rush, add the Tuk-Tuks and Inky Piranha Plants into their respective sections! As for Athens Dash, having a half-pipe in a city for the first time did peak my interest, the track is also certainly interesting to race on, the atmosphere feels very Greek in a brilliant way, and the theme certainly feels majestic! This may become the best city track by far, Moreso than Singapore Speedway! Hopefully, we’ll get to see it in either Wave 5 or 6, as long as they make sure there is still effort put into it, the same with every other track. Great analysis, and hope we get more soon! Thanks for reading! 👋
Great analysis, I’m looking forward to playing this course in Tour and eventually 8 Deluxe. Though… Athens Dash? I think something like Athens Avenue would’ve rolled off the tongue better lol
Strongly the Fether cup because of Athens Asociated woth feathers but for me I see it as thr first track of the cup because if they decide to make LA Laps a section based track LA Laps will be better off as the Last track rather than being the first because Just look where the other section based tracks are placed Last track of their respective cups.
Athens dash really worries me, America has only 3 cities the last one being LA laps. Asia has 3 cities the last one being Bangkok rush. Europe has 5 cities now! And with Madrid coming, we will have 6! Any where else has 1 city, last one being Sydney sprint. Next since Amsterdam Drift we have been getting no alterations Amsterdam Drift makes sense because Dam and Drift Bangkok rush should swap with Tokyo blur so we get Tokyo rush and Bangkok blur. Athens dash, why not Athens Adventure or accelerate. Now my predictions (totally random) I think toad camera man, can take photos when he tricks and send them to your photo library. I predict that Athens dash will have only 2 variants to be unique and in 8DX on lap 3 you will drive lap 1 backwards, like Paris Promenade.
I disagree with the logic that it’s going to be in Wave 5 simply just because it just now getting revealed. Piranha Plant Cove was revealed prior to Wave 4 being released but it’s still not in the booster course pass yet.
As someone who doesn’t play Tour, I feel like the background setting looks basic and unfinished. Like they made the polygons of the buildings but didn’t add any basic textures. Am I wrong in thinking this? Will they polish it up before it’s official release?
Wave 5 predictions: Feather Cup Tour Vancouver Velocity GBA Sunset Wilds GCN Daisy Cruiser Tour Piranha Plant Cove Cherry Cup Tour Los Angeles Laps SNES Vanilla Lake 1 GCN Mushroom City N64 Bowser’s Castle Character Predictions: Diddy Kong Peter Piranha Wave 6 predictions: Acorn Cup Tour Athens Dash Wii Dry Dry Ruins DS Airship Fortress N64 Wario Stadium Spiny Cup 3DS Wuhu Loop GCN Dino Dino Jungle GBA Cheep-Cheep Island Wii Rainbow Road Character Predictions: Pauline Kamek Hammer Bro
@@jakebarton2528 The course selection has been 100% accurate with datamines as of wave 4. I don't think it will change, as they likely decided on the courses before the Booster Course Pass was revealed. Dry Dry Ruins would probably end up being released unfinished if it was added instead of Koopa Cape. What happened to the three other new courses and why does the Spiny Cup contain none? All cups are meant to start with a city course.
@@harrybest2041 I’m basing my predictions on courses that currently exist, if they add a new nitro or city track I’ll update it and I do not believe the leaks (and never will) because the selections for Waves 5 and 6 seem unrealistic to me!
With that. Feather Cup 🪶. Los Angeles Laps. Dry dry ruins. Vanilla Lake 1. Piranha Plant Cove. Cherry Cup 🍒. Athens Dash. Koopa Cape. Sunset Wilds. Bowser Factory (New Nitro Track).
If Athens Dash is to be in the Feather Cup, then I suspect that Vancouver Velocity will be in the Acorn Cup, and by process of elimination, Los Angeles Laps in the Cherry Cup. If theme fit is how we're doing this, then this way arguably makes the most sense if you think about it. Athens and Los Angeles: hot summer vacation. Vancouver: cold snow.
@Swiftjar Albert Boris also explained in his Athens Dash video that it could be possible that Athens Dash could end up in the Spiny Cup in Wave 6 instead.
@Swiftjar I know I said this before, but at this point, if I have to hope for only 1 city that I'd love Nintendo to add into Mario Karts Tour and 8 Deluxe as a Mario Kart track, it needs to be...
Rio de Janeiro
Specfically taking place at nighttime during Carnaval, and featuring memorable / famous landmarks, locations, and festivities such as the Carnaval / Samba parades, Corcovado, Copacabana Beach, and more.
Great video as usual. Yeah, makes sense for Athens Dash to start the Feather Cup. LA Laps likely finishing that cup, a new city track starting the Cherry Cup (or Vancouver Velocity if a new track isn't ready for release), and Piranha Plant Cove finishing the Cherry Cup. That leaves SNES, GBA, Wii, and GCN courses for wave 5 if the datamines continue to be accurate. The exact placement order might be adjusted a bit as Nintendo be like that sometimes, but I'm thinking Bowser Castle, Sunset Wilds, Koopa Cape, and Daisy Cruiser in some order. We'll see. Looking forward to Athens Dash in Tour and with hopefully solid visuals in the Booster Pass. :)
Thanks you absolute legend!!! I cannot wait to have the 4 Tour tracks that aren’t currently in MK8DX to make their way over!
Wonderful analysis as usual man! Super hyped to play it in Tour tomorrow 😄
5:45
Athens Dash will likely be in the Feather Cup part of Wave 5 since Feathers forms part of Greece 🇬🇷
Every Cups in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has a Icon Symbol that fits with a Track like:
Golden Dash Cup:
• 3DS - Toad's Circuit
Luck Bell Cup:
• Tour - Tokyo Blur
• Tour - Ninja Hideaway
Propeller Cup:
• Wii - Mushroom Gorge
• Sky High Sundae
Rock Cup:
• Tour - London Loop
• 3DS - Rock Rock Mountain
Moon Cup:
• Tour - Merry Mountain
• 3DS - Rainbow Road
Fruit Cup:
• Tour - Amsterdam Drift
• GBA - Riverside Park
• Yoshi's Island
Looking forward to see this course once it goes live in Tour and waiting to see Athens Dash 3 in the near future. Having it in the feather cup makes more sense and I don't mind it being the first course for that cup just like with London Loop.
As am I my friend! Tour has been producing the goods lately. What a time to be a Mario Kart fan.
This track is definitely shaping up to be something spectacular and I can’t wait to play it, great analysis Swiftjar!
I completely agree! The track is looking really good. Vibes on it seem to be up.. especially considering it is a city track!
Great analysis and prediction as always!
From the little we've seen Athens Dash looks great, can't wait to race on it in Tour the day after tomorrow and later (hopefully in Wave 5 like you predicted) in 8 Deluxe, too!
Gotta love how they went with "Dash" for the name
Best part of the track obviously
There’s a dash panel! So we must call it dash!
Albert Boris would like a word with you lol
@@SwiftLemur777
Hey I also like Athens Adventure
Geometry Dash
I feel like the race could take a turn and racers could race in the ocean areas of the background, or in the actual city streets of Athens
That would be hilarious! 🤣🏛️
1:25 trust me you're not the only one to feel special about this track, I mean I really appreciate it because I'm from Greece myself
It would make sense if it was in the Feather Cup but then again, it’s Nintendo. They didn’t put Sydney Sprint in the Boomerang Cup
I'm definitely looking forward to Athens Dash, it looks like a really cool city course and i hope it comes in the later waves (which it will like all the other tour tracks and it's really cool) 😄
This track is exciting! Been a while since we got a new city track in both MKT and MK8. Can’t wait for the release in both games
Completely agree!!! I feel like the wait for a new city track has made this all the more sweeter. 🏛️ Thanks for watching mate!!
Previously people said Paris Promenade and Berlin Byways had the most history behind their maps. But that was 2022, and Athens will easily steal the title. Glad to catch your analysis video after watching Albert Brosis'. I also love the seaside, the Mediterranean has to look absolutely majestic from pretty much everywhere. Thx for supplying us with this content, you continue to be a great RUclips force in the mario kart departments.
Feather cup I think it will come. Great video
Thanks so much! I’m thinking the same!
Great video as usual swiftjar I'm looking forward to seeing it in the upcoming tour
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed and I appreciate you watching. 😊
@@Swiftjar you're welcome
I learned more about these cities in Mario Kart than school
I learned some of these cities existed because of Mario Kart lol.
😅😂
@@JKV2500 😭
I agreed.
I predict thisll be the first track of the feather cup, because of a pattern
Amsterdam, singapore and bangkok were the newest cities and they all got released in one wave
Plus, i dont think itd fit as the ending because of l.a laps which is most likely section based
Very good point my friend!
If you move the starting line, Los Angeles Laps could easily have three laps. Have it be around where the Oil Field's entrance is, on a road used in both the first and second variants. The first lap could be 1, the second could be 3 and the third could be 2.
Amazing Video Swiftjar! 🥰💖
I can’t wait for the course to come out in Tour soon!🥰💖
Thanks so much Chika!!! Not to long to wait now. 😅
Feather cup seems accurate, it’s relatively summer themed (at least the colouring) so it honestly wouldn’t make much sense in the spiny cup
Thanks so much for watching mate!
@@Swiftjar thank you my good sir
At first I was like "-meh" because of the models and textures that looked a bit plain and rushed with the pillars and houses, but I trust the Mario Kart 8 Version to enhance the graphisms (as they did with the other tracks) and give us another spectacular track!
Oh absolutely! The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe version will without a doubt polish this up! Thanks so much for watching to. :)
I definitely think it's be in Wave 5 with Los Angeles Laps! That leaves one other city in Wave 5 unknown.
Thats exactly my thinking as well!!
I’m curious since the next tour only has Athens Dash 1 + 2 if Athens Dash 3 will be in the urban area. I also wonder if they are planning Athens Dash 3 before bringing AD to the booster course pass. We still have 2 months minimum I think based on the past waves before wave 5 comes out, so they have some time.
Quite possibly!! I don’t think it matters to much if we get Athens 3 or not before MK8DX… I think Sydney Sprint released in MK8DX before Sydney Sprint 3 in Tour from memory. 😅
@@Swiftjar oh I didn’t know that! I don’t play Tour very often enough to notice the timeline like that haha. I’m a little more convinced now about Athens Dash being next regardless of an AD3 or not
Should have named it Athènes athletics. Missed opportunity.
Are you kind of French ?
@@LucasDeroy yes
@@captainphoton1693 Bienvenue dans le club
@@LucasDeroy ba j'y suis deja. bro
No that sounds like a sports team name
Honestly, after seeing this track, I‘m definitely hyped for it!
The name does deserve a change for future games, 8 Deluxe included, and speaking of which, for Wave 1, update the graphics for 3DS Toad Circuit, Wave 2, add the ball drop sound effect that activated as you exited the pinball table in DS Waluigi Pinball, Wave 3, the only change is in 3DS Rainbow Road, add any sound effects that were used in the original, as a bonus, in DS Peach Gardens, the Fountain roundabout at the beginning could have its barriers removed, and of course, Wave 4, in Tour Bangkok Rush, add the Tuk-Tuks and Inky Piranha Plants into their respective sections!
As for Athens Dash, having a half-pipe in a city for the first time did peak my interest, the track is also certainly interesting to race on, the atmosphere feels very Greek in a brilliant way, and the theme certainly feels majestic! This may become the best city track by far, Moreso than Singapore Speedway!
Hopefully, we’ll get to see it in either Wave 5 or 6, as long as they make sure there is still effort put into it, the same with every other track.
Great analysis, and hope we get more soon! Thanks for reading! 👋
Great analysis, I’m looking forward to playing this course in Tour and eventually 8 Deluxe. Though… Athens Dash? I think something like Athens Avenue would’ve rolled off the tongue better lol
Amazing video swifty!!!!!
Thanks Kart Bros!!! You’re a legend.
We need Rome next. The italian brothers need to come home
Yes sir another banger video by the king of Mario kart
Thanks so much you legend!!!! Appreciate this!!! 😊
Strongly the Fether cup because of Athens Asociated woth feathers but for me I see it as thr first track of the cup because if they decide to make LA Laps a section based track LA Laps will be better off as the Last track rather than being the first because Just look where the other section based tracks are placed Last track of their respective cups.
Very good point my friend!! 😅
I think Athens Dash would use Cloudtop Cruise instruments in the remix and also do you think SNES Bowser Castle 3 should be in the DLC?
Hey Swiftjar I even have family members for Greece plus in history we are learning about Athens Greece
Nice! We have something in common. 😊
@@Swiftjar I think we do I have a big family
I want to see Cairo Circuit in the future.
Top vid!
Thank you so much! I appreciate it. 😊
The introduction says "Athens Drift", it should be "Athens Dash". But great video anyway
They should have called it Athens Adventure, what a wasted opportunity Nintendo.
This Tour track got the first for most things.
Athens dash really worries me,
America has only 3 cities the last one being LA laps.
Asia has 3 cities the last one being Bangkok rush.
Europe has 5 cities now! And with Madrid coming, we will have 6!
Any where else has 1 city, last one being Sydney sprint.
Next since Amsterdam Drift we have been getting no alterations
Amsterdam Drift makes sense because Dam and Drift
Bangkok rush should swap with Tokyo blur so we get Tokyo rush and Bangkok blur.
Athens dash, why not Athens Adventure or accelerate.
Now my predictions (totally random)
I think toad camera man, can take photos when he tricks and send them to your photo library.
I predict that Athens dash will have only 2 variants to be unique and in 8DX on lap 3 you will drive lap 1 backwards, like Paris Promenade.
Mario Kart fans when Athens Dash is not called Athens Acceleration (the name is not a forced alliteration)
I disagree with the logic that it’s going to be in Wave 5 simply just because it just now getting revealed. Piranha Plant Cove was revealed prior to Wave 4 being released but it’s still not in the booster course pass yet.
That’s fair! I think PPC and Athens will be in Wave 5… But they’re only predictions. :)
As someone who doesn’t play Tour, I feel like the background setting looks basic and unfinished. Like they made the polygons of the buildings but didn’t add any basic textures. Am I wrong in thinking this? Will they polish it up before it’s official release?
You’re absolutely not wrong for thinking this! I do believe they will polish up the graphics a lot for the MK8DX version though. :)
Athens… D-D- WHY DASH???
🤣 Look, it’s not the best name in the world haha!
Wave 5 predictions:
Feather Cup
Tour Vancouver Velocity
GBA Sunset Wilds
GCN Daisy Cruiser
Tour Piranha Plant Cove
Cherry Cup
Tour Los Angeles Laps
SNES Vanilla Lake 1
GCN Mushroom City
N64 Bowser’s Castle
Character Predictions:
Diddy Kong
Peter Piranha
Wave 6 predictions:
Acorn Cup
Tour Athens Dash
Wii Dry Dry Ruins
DS Airship Fortress
N64 Wario Stadium
Spiny Cup
3DS Wuhu Loop
GCN Dino Dino Jungle
GBA Cheep-Cheep Island
Wii Rainbow Road
Character Predictions:
Pauline
Kamek
Hammer Bro
I can tell you're definitely going to be wrong with your predictions, especially wave 6.
Not necessarily, the leaks are not 100% correct. so in my mind anything can happen.
@@jakebarton2528 The course selection has been 100% accurate with datamines as of wave 4. I don't think it will change, as they likely decided on the courses before the Booster Course Pass was revealed. Dry Dry Ruins would probably end up being released unfinished if it was added instead of Koopa Cape.
What happened to the three other new courses and why does the Spiny Cup contain none? All cups are meant to start with a city course.
@@harrybest2041 I’m basing my predictions on courses that currently exist, if they add a new nitro or city track I’ll update it and I do not believe the leaks (and never will) because the selections for Waves 5 and 6 seem unrealistic to me!
With that.
Feather Cup 🪶.
Los Angeles Laps.
Dry dry ruins.
Vanilla Lake 1.
Piranha Plant Cove.
Cherry Cup 🍒.
Athens Dash.
Koopa Cape.
Sunset Wilds.
Bowser Factory (New Nitro Track).
I believe the feather Cup is the perfect place for both Piranha Plant Cove and Athens Dash
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