The first Mario Kart Wii tournament for October is live, and, like the Topmen challenge from the summer, it’s a boss fight. This time against a giant Pokey in the Thwomp Desert level.

Nintendo has been steadfastly running “tournaments” twice a month, and nobody ever talks about them, like it’s some kind of Kart Fight Club. Sometimes they’re neato like this one, sometimes they’re regular and boring. But I still have to ask: when is Nintendo going to crow about this? Nobody knows this even happens unless you’re opted-in to the MKWii message board mailing list. Will Nintendo eventually push a patch that unlocks these tournaments as a series of offline challenges, so we can play our favorites over and over again? Are these tournaments even on the disk, or are they downloaded when we go to play them? Would it kill Nintendo to talk up the good features of their games?

*Sigh* More awesome giant Pokey pics after the jump.