Cosmic Encounter
Galactic Championship Tournament 2019
The Cosmic Encounter Experience was such a smash hit at Escape Velocity 2018, that they’ll be back for 2019 with the first annual Galactic Championship Tournament. Join players from around the universe to compete for the title.
In partnership with Fantasy Flight Games, the Museum of Science Fiction is pleased to announce the Cosmic Encounter Galactic Championship Tournament 2019.
Register for the Tournament
Escape Velocity 2019 will be held on May 24 – 26
Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center
201 Waterfront Street
National Harbor, MD 20745
(301) 965-4000 – room reservations
Washington DC’s National Harbor complex is across the Potomac River from historic Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
Exit 2A on the Beltway
Room block: Escape Velocity
Get a room now!
Bring the whole family to play. The Cosmic Encounter Galactic Championship Tournament will have special “newbies only” games in the first round!
-
0
0
Days
-
0
0
Hours
-
0
0
Minutes
-
0
0
Seconds
Competition Swag for the Players
- Exclusive new alien – the Booster, power of Escape Velocity – and flare
- 20 neon pink ships
- 42 Cosmic Combo cards that accommodates up to 8 players and references all of the expansions
- Special Museum of Science Fiction gifts
Prizes for Tournament Winners
- Cosmic Emulator cards
- Galactic champion certificate signed by the creators of Cosmic Encounter and
the executive director of the Museum of Science Fiction - Recognition at Escape Velocity 2020 and a VIP pass to the next event
- Signed copy of the 42nd edition base set
- Competition Escape Velocity 2019 T-shirts
*All items subject to availability at time of tournament
The Assistant will get us organized
Why every Cosmic fan should attend . . .
Tournament play details:
- 2 elimination rounds
- 4+ players per game
- 6 players in final game
- 90 minute time limit
- Prizes for the 6 finalists
- Grand Prize for the new CE Champion
- Special access and 2019 tournament badge
All the Packrats are coming out of the woodwork now
Autographed Memorabilia
- Bring your Cosmic stuff for CE designers to sign
- Get exclusive signed CE 2019 Championship Swag
Arcade will pwn. Will you?
Tabletop simulator on Steam
- Join us on Steam/TTS if you can’t make it to EV
- Games streamed live on Twitch/Discord
The Moocher got his invite, come get yours!
CE designers will be there!
- We played with fans at EV 2018
- Can you beat the creators in 2019?
TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP
Galactic Championship tournament play will take place on Friday and Saturday. Each day will crown a tournament winner. Players will participate in two games for Round One, after which the top players will advance to a single game in Round Two. The top six players from Round Two will compete against each other for the day’s crown and prizes. Escape Velocity participants who attend both days are eligible to play (and win) on both days!
The official Cosmic Encounter Rules are designed to allow tournament play within a relatively defined time frame. A point system is used to end the first and second round games in 50 minutes, preventing them from being prolonged as players struggle for solo victories.
ROUND 1
Divide players into four-player games. This round will have two games. Each game will last for 50 minutes. The first game in this round will use the basic Cosmic Encounter set only. At the end of 50 minutes, end all games, distribute the game points, players switch around so that they are in new groups and begin the second game. All players advance to the seconds game. The second game will add in Cosmic Incursion and Cosmic Conflict. End the game after 50 minutes and total each player’s points from game one and game two.
ADVANCEMENT TO ROUND 2
To advance to round 2 a player must score high enough to make the cut off. Scores are totaled from game one and game two. The cut off is figured by taking the top scoring players in multiples of four until you have about half of the original players.
ROUND 2
There will be one game in round two. Divide the players into four player games. The game will last for 50 minutes. Add in Cosmic Alliance and Cosmic Storm. Victory points are figured by the same system, but players do not carry their round one points over into this round. All players are starting from zero points.
ADVANCEMENT TO FINALS
The top six players, based on the points earned in round two only, advance to the finals.
FINALS
One game, no time limit. Add Cosmic Dominion and Cosmic Eons. No points are used, the regular winner(s) are the champions.
VICTORY POINT SYSTEM
The victory point system is used in round one and round two. At the end of 50 minutes each player gets:
- 1 point for every home colony (5 possible)
- 2 points for every foreign colony (10 possible)
- 6 points in the pot divided among the winners.
Example: A player who won alone, and who still had all home colonies would have 21 points (5 for home colonies + 10 for foreign colonies + 6 from the pot).
Sheriff’s orders: All Cosmic players must attend!
Backstory – How Cosmic Encounter met Escape Velocity
The Cosmic Encounter Experience was the brainchild of Charles Hildebrandt, Production Counsel Museum of Science Fiction and Peter Olotka one of the original designers of Cosmic Encounter. Charles originally met Peter, Bill Eberle, and Jack Kittredge at the New York Science Fiction Society’s Lunacon in 1977 when Eon Products first published Cosmic. 41 years later, Peter contacted him about featuring Cosmic Encounter at Escape Velocity 2018, but didn’t know that Charles was a huge fan. In the meantime, Fantasy Flight Games (who has been publishing Cosmic Encounter since 2008) was finishing the 42nd Anniversary Edition of CE design with Future Pastimes, and both parties thought that Escape Velocity would be an excellent venue to stage the official launch. Which leads to the question, if Cosmic was first put into production in 1977, wouldn’t that make 2018 the 41st anniversary?