Recon 2024, Croatia's largest fantasy, pop culture and gaming convention, will soon open its doors for a weekend that promises an unforgettable experience for fans of fantasy, cosplay, video games and East Asian culture. This year's Rikon, which will be held from 11 to 13 October 2024. in space Exportwood Rijeka, is about to be more spectacular than ever before and brings a top international guest, a series of interesting lectures, panels, workshops, quizzes, competitions, games and tournaments.
This year's guest of honor is Rikon Doug Cockle, an American voice actor best known for the voice role Geralt of Rivia in the mega-popular video game "Witcher" of the Polish giant CD Projekt Red, the game that was declared the game of the decade, and is enjoying its screen version on Netflix. In addition, Doug voices many video game characters, including “Baldur's Gate 3”, "Horizon Zero Dawn", "Alan Wake II" i "The First Descendant", and he also starred in the HBO series "Band of Brothers" and with Christian Bale in "Reign of Fire".
Visitors to Rikon will be able to meet Doug, buy autographs, take a picture with him or even receive a personalized voice message. Doug will be a guest on the program at Friday and Saturday, and in addition to signing autographs, visitors will have the opportunity to listen two panel discussions with him and ask him questions.
From Friday 11 to Sunday 13 October 2024, the Rikon program includes panels, lectures and quizzes about cult films, games, popular series, Korean culture. Također, tu is and omiljena točka publike - Cosplay competition, the only Croatian K-pop dance competition and the always popular boardgame zone, gaming tournaments, creative workshops and a program dedicated to Rijeka's martial arts clubs.
Croatian dance competition in dancing to Korean pop music and K-pop party on Friday
This year, Rikon also brings attractive content about East Asian pop culture and music. Rikon hosts the only national one K-pop Dance Competitions, which awards in three categories: solo performance, duo/trio and group performance, which will present original choreographies to globally popular Korean pop songs.
At the very end of the day, from 10:00 p.m. on the floor of Exportdrva begins K-pop party where the visitors will be entertained by a DJ with the latest and greatest hits of the k-pop scene. Entrance for all Rikon visitors is free, while others can buy tickets at the entrance.
The most popular point of the program: Cosplay competition on Saturday
It is an indispensable part of the program Cosplay competition, which brings together beginners and advanced Cosplay artists who will rule the convention again this year with their impressive costumes. The panel of judges who will decide on the winners, along with the votes of the audience, are renowned Croatian, Slovenian and Colombian Cosplay artists, who have won international awards with their costumes. The judges will evaluate the skills and quality of the costumes, the composition of the performance, and award prizes for the "Master" league category and the beginner "Apprentice" league.
Play: on the board, with cards, on vintage technology or powerful computers
Visitors will be able to play the entire Rickon weekend: both in the boardgame zone for board games, the card game zone, as well as in the gaming and retro zones. Association RiRoll provides a rich boardgame zone for all those who want to try their hand at classic board games, while River City Games organizira tournaments bogatu TCG zonu - trading cards games - with igrama as what su Yu-Gi-Oh, Lorcana, Magic the Gathering i ostale.
Peek&Poke Rijeka they bring "vintage" consoles and arcades from the museum so that all generations can enjoy original fun games and forgotten technology.
River City Games also organizes a gaming zone and League of Legends tournament, on high-end computers equipped with powerful configurations that made it possible Računala.hr.
Free entry for children up to 10 years old and discounts on tickets purchased online
Tickets for Rikon are available on the website www.RikonRijeka.com, a za sve koji kupe ulaznice online, omogućeni su popusti i akcije - promo price za vikend ulaznice, popust na 10+ ulaznica za groups te kupovina VIP ulaznica - s posebnim pogodonstthere is.
Tickets will be available for purchase on the spot. Rikon is an event for all ages, s free entry for children up to 10 years old. Get your tickets and get ready for a magical weekend!
All information about the program and ticket prices can be found on the website www.RikonRijeka.com and follow Rikon on social media (Instagram and Facebook @RikonRijeka) to stay up to date with the latest news and surprises!
