Cosmic Encounter Tournament March 14-15 @ MomoCon (Atlanta, GA)

[Big Head Zach 56]

Attention!

I will be hosting a CE tournament at the MomoCon anime/sci-fi convention in approximately two weeks. This is a FREE convention that is located at the Georgia Institute of Technology every March. Those that are interested in prizes and helping bring CE to the masses should come and participate!

Here's what's being broadcast to the convention's regulars:

As the proud leader of the Macron Empire, your attack ships are 4 times as powerful as anyone else's. But the Oracle to your right can see what you're going to do in advance, and the Zombie Nation to your left doesn't lose his ships when he is defeated...and the cute and cuddly Loser across from you wins when he loses, and loses when he wins! How will you survive the impending COSMIC ENCOUNTER?

COSMIC ENCOUNTER is the classic game of wild romp-n-stomp wheel-n-deal space diplomacy that's easy to learn, amazingly fun, and never the same game twice! Choose from 50 different aliens to play (that's 2.1 MILLION unique 5-player games), each with its own bizarre way of breaking the rules. Bluff, intimidate, weasel, and gimmick your way to be the first to establish 5 foreign colonies on others' planets, and you win.

COSMIC ENCOUNTER plays with 3-5 players, can be learned in under 5 minutes, and takes less than an hour to play. We'll be running games of C.E. all weekend, free to play, open to anyone who wants to jump in! However, if you want a shot at some cool prizes, you can purchase tickets to have the games you play count in a running competition that lasts until Sunday afternoon, where the top 5 players will square off in an Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny to see who is the Supreme Ruler Of The Universe, Bwahaha .

The details:

The entry fee is $5 to have your games and tournament points tracked. This fee is reduced to $3 if you are in a sci-fi themed costume (since the convention is mostly cosplayer-oriented, this helps bring in the random people).

All games will use the 4-Planet variant, and feature 30 of the 50 aliens (picked to allow variety but minimize newbie frustration). All standard setup/rules from the FFG version are in effect (flares, reinforcements).

Points are awarded based on the number of foreign and home colonies a player possesses at the end of the game, as well as a bonus pool to the winners based on the point totals of the players in the game (therefore, the winners get a bigger bonus if they play with other tournament entrants, but it still is worth playing against random people). Joint wins are worth less bonus points to each individual winner, but colony points remain the same.

Sunday afternoon, the top 5 point scorers will play in a full 5-Planet game, using the LCR Pick 1.5 method (Dealt 3 aliens w/ flares, pass one flare to the left and one to the right, then from those three, pick an alien to play and another alien's flare to include (discarding the third flare entirely). Joint wins will be disallowed - the winner is the first and only player to acquire the most foreign colonies, with a minimum of 5. (That means if two or more players get to 5 at the same time, then someone has to get a sixth foreign colony, or eliminate the others' fifth colonies so that they are the only one with 5 or more.)

The winner of the final game gets a brand-new copy of the FFG game. Runners-up will receive various prizes to be determined.

 

Even if you're not interested in the prize, if you desire an all-weekend Cosmicfest, this is the place to be!

Questions welcomed.

 

 

 

[Lizalfos 7]

How late does this run on Sunday?  If I can get a place to stay and someone crazy enough to come with me, might drive out for it afterall... just need to get home at a reasonable hour Sunday evening.  

[Big Head Zach 56]

Adam said:

How late does this run on Sunday?  If I can get a place to stay and someone crazy enough to come with me, might drive out for it afterall... just need to get home at a reasonable hour Sunday evening.  

I'd likely have the final game happen around 6-7pm on Sunday.

[Lizalfos 7]

I highly doubt I'll get anyone to come, but if I do and anyone between Louisiana and Georgia wants to carpool, let me know.  I can fit three more aliens -- I mean, people -- in my car.

[ItsTheDukester 0]

Take that goofy Cody with you.

Or suck it up and drive with your good friends Mountain Dew and Doritos. They'll keep you up.

[Lizalfos 7]

TheDukester said:

Take that goofy Cody with you.

Or suck it up and drive with your good friends Mountain Dew and Doritos. They'll keep you up.

Heh, 8.5 hours there, 8.5 back... I think 17 hours driving alone in less than three days is a bit too much.
It's tempting though... My doctor says I'm not getting enough Cosmic, and this would be the perfect dosage to last me a long time.