jack reda - current ce champion
Back in 2014, Fantasy Flight Games hosted CosmicCon, where CE fans from around the world gathered for a celebration of all things Cosmic Encounter. Reda took the tournament crown, as the Aristocrat, naturally! Can you beat him at the Galactic Championship Tournament this year?
autographed memorabilia
Bring your Cosmic stuff for CE designers to sign
Get exclusive signed CE 2019 Championship Swag
ce designers will be there!
We played with fans at EV 2018
Can you beat the creators in 2019?
Tournament play overview:
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
VIP access
Backstory - How Cosmic Encounter met Escape Velocity
The Cosmic Encounter Experience was the brainchild of Charles Hildebrandt, Production Counsel Museum of Science Fiction & 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.