Behind The Scenes Of GTA Online’s Mario Kart Meet Up

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You’ve probably seen loads of videos of car meet-ups in GTA Online. A bunch of virtual gear heads get together in a dark parking lot to show off their suped-up tuners and tricked-out exotics. Well, have you ever seen one with Mario Kart-style go karts? What about one with an airshow? How about both combined? Well, that’s the kind of meet-up iOSGamer’s crew, We Da Best Events, hosts.

“Everything has to be minutely, obsessively planned ahead of time,” iOS tells me. Once he gets an idea for an event in his head, he’ll go and scout out locations, take pictures, and even puts together a PowerPoint with a timetable. The lobby size in GTA Online is capped at 30, and iOS tells me his events hit that with ease, so planning is essential.

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In the video shared on Reddit, we see players dressed up as Mario, Luigi, and Waluigi - basically colourful shirts under overalls - around semi-circles of bright go karts as planes fly in formation and streak smoke across the sunset beach sky. Armed guards keep an eye on proceedings to keep everyone safe, and then off to the races we go!

“I played Mario Kart Wii as a child, one of my favorite tracks is Daisy Circuit,” iOS explains. “I worked backwards and I was like, ‘I want to imagine what it's like to have Mario Kart in GTA.’ I put tidbits of different spots that would really fit in with the Mario Kart theme. You’ve got the playground, the sunset, the beach - Daisy Circuit’s all about the beach.”

But how did these events become so big? iOS started hosting events last year during Covid lockdowns, “because why not?” He’d spent time filming airshow crew Black Sabres Display Team’s flights, so for his first