Accelerate was not planned to arrive before little crusaders. The accelerate clip in the Kickstarter / IGG trailer was just for the trailer to show off bits of the game.
The vote wasn’t supposed to determine the next gamemode, it was just supposed to help the team decide which gamemode they should make next. Seems like they found little crusaders more appropriate.
I’d be happy to see Accelerate introduced as soon as possible. After all the bugs in the GMT version (Source Karts), it’d be nice to have a racing game mode that people are actually excited to play now. It was really just dependent on your ping in Source Karts. If it was higher, there was actually input lag for your steering, making it essentially unplayable at 200+ ping or more. Seeing how they fixed the input lag for Ball Race, it’ll be nice to see if they can pull of the same fix with Accelerate, too.
For those curious, here’s the poll that was mentioned.
Accelerate had a 37% vote and Little Crusaders had a 34% vote, with the third highest being Zombie Massacre at only 17% of the vote (at least half of the aforementioned options). As stated before, this was only to gauge the community and to use as a guideline, not as a certainty. Accelerate and Little Crusaders were very close, so it’s no surprise that one of those two was picked to work on next. Assuming the pattern returns, Accelerate would likely be the next candidate.