Gem Cup

Gem Cups are special tournament races in Crash Team Racing and Crash Nitro Kart. Winning one of them gets you a Gem. In CTR, there are five Gem Cups to get Gems of different colours. The colours of Gems are: red, blue, yellow, green, and purple. In CNK, this is the same, except yellow is no longer present. Winning a Gem Cup also unlocks a new racer to use outside of advenure mode. In order to access a Gem Cup, you must have four Tokens of the same colour.

For each colour, except purple, you race on the tracks where you won that certain coloured token. For purple, you race the four bosses of each world on their home tracks. The token colour of the bosses' tracks are all different to each other.

To win the Gem, you must score the most points across the four (three in CNK) races. Points are issued as follows

1st- 9pts

2nd- 6pts

3rd- 3pts

4th- 1pt

Crash Team Racing Gem Cups
Red Gem Cup Green Gem Cup Blue Gem Cup Yellow Gem Cup Purple Gem Cup (Boss Cup)
 * 1) Crash Cove
 * 2) Mystery Caves
 * 3) Papu's Pyramid
 * 4) Blizzard Bluff
 * 1) Roo's Tubes
 * 2) Coco Park
 * 3) Polar Pass
 * 4) Cortex Castle
 * 1) Sewer Speedway
 * 2) Tiger Temple
 * 3) Dragon Mines
 * 4) N. Gin Labs
 * 1) Dingo Canyon
 * 2) Tiny Arena
 * 3) Hot Air Skyway
 * 4) Oxide Station
 * 1) Roo's Tubes
 * 2) Papu's Pyramid
 * 3) Dragon Mines
 * 4) Hot Air Skyway

Crash Team Racing

 * Ripper Roo (green)
 * Papu Papu (red)
 * Komodo Joe (blue)
 * Pinstripe Potoroo (yellow)
 * Fake Crash (purple)

Crash Nitro Kart

 * Dingodile (red)
 * Zem (green)
 * Polar (blue)
 * Zam (purple)