Daybreak Academy

Who: Anyone willing to take on Mario's MAR10 challenge, laugh at those failing or just. Mingle.
When: March 10
Where: Soleil Town Square
Warnings: LETS-A GO

For some people in Soleil, they wait the whole year for March tenth. Others pull the curtains across and beg for March Eleventh to come.

Every March tenth, Mario celebrates. Because it's MAR10. He's been around long enough plenty of residents have grown up with it. Some seem to think it's an international holiday or something. Sometimes it's an absolute disaster. Like when he brings out the karts.

This year, it's relatively tame as the invitation pushed under every door in the academy explains.

Overnight, working with the same delighted energy he attacks any challenge with, Mario has constructed an assault course.

All the fresh faces of this new year have had him thinking back to his early days and the iconic course features clockwork minions, real working power-ups, actual warp pipe and musical accompaniment by a live band.

Prizes are promised for participants that complete the course- with special ones available if they beat Mario in a race.

There's also a lot of pizza, pasta, Italian coffee and gelato around.

Those with real guts and smarts may realise the invitation, if folded just the right way into the shape of a mushroom, will give directions to a second course hidden in the mountains open only after the sun goes down. There are no prizes here, aside from knowing you're one bad mama-Luigi if you can beat it.