KYDERBY/2025

World Building Contest

A world-building contest is held throughout April as a preliminary to the actual racing event. The deadline for world submissions is set at 12:00 PM GT time on Friday, April 25. submitting their own race worlds through a forum thread, players in the community will get a chance of having their worlds selected as the official race worlds during the Derby. 20 race worlds will be selected from the pool of entries. The players who have built each of these worlds will be given a Mint Julep.

A full list of the contest's rules can be viewed here.

Winners

The worlds picked as Kentucky Derby 2025's official race worlds were announced on May 3, 2025. The list provided below is sorted alphabetically.

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  CARROTRACING by BIGmajor12
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  CHAOTICDAY by RAMJIRO
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  DERBYRUINS by Cabes
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  DRAGNRACE by MarkChristian
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  ENCHANTRACK by Viju
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  FORESTBY by Brik321
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  GARDENBY by BeiXiaoLin
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  HAYDAYBY by PlayfuIl
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  INSTAGRAMDERBY by EcoEarth
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  LOSTSERPENTINE by Aspheera
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  MARIOKARTSTADIUM by SHiels
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  MARIOMAPDERBY by Krustie
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  MINIGOLFDERBY by coolnape
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  MINOTAURDERBY by Lyijy
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  MOSSMOTION Skremmie
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  THEGLAMPROM by JonVince
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  TIMESCAPE by ROUPOK
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  TRAININGRUSH by HFake
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  VEILBORNE by Polleroo
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  WHERETORUN by ELYXIAL

An additional Growmoji Moyai were also given to the selected three winners belonging in these categories:

• Best Design - THEGLAMPROM by JonVince
• Best Gameplay - MARIOKARTSTADIUM by SHiels
• Most Creative - FORESTBY by Brik321

Racing Contest

The world DERBYHUB (now DERBYHUB2025) was used in order to provide players with quick access to each available race world.

Gallery

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  Official promotional image