Racing Cups

Racing cups are Arcade Mode tournaments seen in the Crash Bandicoot racing games. Here, players participate in a series of three to four races with an accumulating score for each race. At the end of the tournament, the racer with the highest score gets crowned the winner.
== Track appearances ==
Racing cups have appeared in every racing game.
===Crash Team Racing===
In this game, Cup Race allows for up to four players to race together with a total of eight racers on a selection of four tracks. If every cup is won at a certain difficulty, a Battle Arena becomes available to use. Winning on easy difficulty unlocks Parking Lot, medium unlocking The North Bowl, and hard unlocking Lab Basement.
The track selection is not the same as in the Gem Cups of this game's Adventure Mode.
Cup 	1 	2 	3 	4
Wumpa 	Crash Cove 	Tiger Temple 	Blizzard Bluff	Coco Park
Crystal	Roo's Tubes 	Dingo Canyon 	Dragon Mines 	Sewer Speedway
Nitro 	Mystery Caves	Papu's Pyramid	Cortex Castle 	Tiny Arena
Crash 	Polar Pass 	N. Gin Labs 	Hot Air Skyway	Slide Coliseum
=== Crash Nitro Kart ===
Cups reappeared in Crash Nitro Kart, where they functioned similarly to the cups in Crash Team Racing. The main difference, however, is that these cups lack a fourth race. Also unlike Crash Team Racing, the track selection for these cups aren't shuffled around for the Adventure Mode's Gem Cups; the tracks featured in the four Cups are exactly the same as in the four Gem Cups, respectively.
Cup 	1 	2 	3
Wumpa	Inferno Island	Meteor Gorge 	Assembly Lane
Uka 	Jungle Boogie 	Deep Sea Driving	Out of Time
Aku 	Android Alley 	Tiny Temple 	Thunder Struck
Nitro	Barin Ruins 	Clockwork Wumpa 	Electron Avenue
====Game Boy Advance / N-Gage====
The tracks featured in the four Cups are exactly the same as in the four Gem Cups respectively.
Cup 	1 	2 	3
Wumpa 	Inferno Island	Barin Ruins 	Thunder Struck
Nitro 	Meteor Gorge 	Clockwork Wumpa 	Electron Avenue
Crash 	Tiny's Temple 	Out of Time 	Android Alley
Crystal	Jungle Boogie 	Deep Sea Driving	Assembly Lane
===Crash Tag Team Racing===
In this game, the Cup Race mode is renamed Grand Prix, and each Grand Prix needed to be purchased in the Multiplayer menu's Gift Shop for local play usage, each of them based on the five sections of Von Clutch's MotorWorld. In these Grand Prixes, players race through three tracks, and the results for each race is based on how many Wumpa Coins they have earned, which is determined by their placement. Unlike in previous games however, each racer gets an additional 30 Wumpa Coins per KO they have made during the race, which adds up to the total score as well. The Grand Prix ends with an acapella cover of Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance". Co-op racing, which is exclusive to the PSP and PS2 versions, is not available in Grand Prix.
Cup 	1 	2 	3 	Cost
Mystery Island 	Tiki Turbo 	Pirates of the Carburetor	Deep Sea Driving 	N/A
Happily Ever Faster 	Once Upon a Tire 	Track and the Beanstalk 	Evilocity 	2,000 Coins
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks	Fossil Fuel Injection	La Brea Car Pits 	Tire and Ice 	3,000 Coins
Tomb Town 	Dead Heat 	Crash Test Mummies 	Pyramid Pass 	6,000 Coins
Astro Land 	Rings of Uranus 	Uranus' Mine 	Craters on Uranus	10,000 Coins
===Crash Nitro Kart 2===
Crash Nitro Kart 2 contains four courses per cup and has four cups in total. Each cup is unlocked by completing the previous one. Successfully completing a cup marks it with a star. Earning a star for each cup unlocks Sudden Death mode.
Cup 	1 	2 	3 	4
Silver Piston 	Zen Race 	Yaya's Track 	Totem Track 	Tiny's Track
Silver Steering Wheel	Crash's Creek	Coco's Track 	Rocky Falls 	Canyon Ripper
Gold Piston 	Spider Race 	Cortex's Belvedere	Orichalch Track	Abyss Avenue
Gold Steering Wheel 	Nina's Track 	Toxic Tunnels 	Oxide's Track 	Star Track
===Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D===
Crash Nitro Kart 3D has four tracks in each cup again, like in Crash Team Racing, but only has three cups available. Each cup is unlocked by clearing the previous one. The letters C, R, A, S, and H can also be collected on certain tracks. Collecting these letters allows for the player to unlock a certain character.
Cup 	1 	2 	3 	4
N-Tropy	Desert 1*	Outer Space 1	N. Sanity Island 1	Fairy 1*
Wumpa 	Desert 2 	Outer Space 2	N. Sanity Island 2	Fairy 2*
Aku-Aku	Desert 3 	Outer Space 3	N. Sanity Island 3	Fairy 3*
:* - Contains the letters C, R, A, S, and H.
===Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2===
This game, the sequel of Crash Nitro Kart 3D, also features four Racing Cup Tournaments with three tracks each.
Cup	1 	2 	3
1 	Bandicoot Beach	Haunted Hovel 	Mayan Mayhem
2 	Wacky Volcano 	Anarchy in Antarctica	Bayou Blowout
3 	Hellenic Hijinx	Lunatic Laboratory 	Cactus Capers
4 	Goofy Galaxy 	Crazy in Kart-Mandu 	Stinky Sewers
===Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled===
This game combines the cups from Crash Team Racing and Crash Nitro Kart, with some slight differences made to the Crash Nitro Kart cups: as the Crash Team Racing cups have four tracks each, the Crash Nitro Kart cups now follow the same format, and conversely, there are only three Crash Nitro Kart cups as opposed to four. As there already exists the Wumpa and Nitro Cups in Crash Team Racing, the Wumpa Cup from Crash Nitro Kart has been replaced with the Velo one, and the Nitro one of Nitro Kart has its tracks being split over the Aku, Uka, and Lost Cups, the latter being added after an update.
Cup 	1 	2 	3 	4
Wumpa 	Crash Cove 	Tiger Temple 	Blizzard Bluff	Coco Park
Nitro 	Mystery Caves 	Papu's Pyramid 	Cortex Castle 	Tiny Arena
Crystal	Roo's Tubes 	Dingo Canyon 	Dragon Mines 	Sewer Speedway
Crash 	Polar Pass 	N. Gin Labs 	Hot Air Skyway	Slide Coliseum
Velo 	Inferno Island 	Meteor Gorge 	Assembly Lane 	Hyper Spaceway
Aku 	Android Alley 	Tiny Temple 	Thunder Struck	Barin Ruins
Uka 	Jungle Boogie 	Deep Sea Driving	Out of Time 	Electron Avenue
Lost¹ 	Clockwork Wumpa 	Oxide Station 	Twilight Tour 	Prehistoric Playground
Bonus² 	Spyro Circuit 	Nina's Nightmare	Koala Carnival	Gingerbread Joyride
Desert³	Megamix Mania 	Out of Time 	Twilight Tour 	Dingo Canyon
Space³ 	Drive-thru Danger	Hyper Spaceway 	Oxide Station 	Electron Avenue
:¹ - The Lost Cup was added in the 1.12 (PS4/Xbox One) and 1.0.8 (Switch) update. Prior to this update, Clockwork Wumpa and Oxide Station were two of three tracks that were not featured in any of the available cups.
:² - The Bonus Cup was added in the 1.16 (PS4/Xbox One) and 1.0.11 (Switch) update.
:³ - The Desert Cup and Space Cup were added in the 1.19 (PS4/Xbox One) and 1.0.14 (Switch) update.
==Gallery==
Cupmenu.png|Cup Selection Menu in Crash Nitro Kart
Photo(9).png|The Cup Menu in Crash Nitro Kart 3D
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