The inaugural X Games League Championship planned for the Caesars Superdome from July 24-26 will include two nights of concerts at the Smoothie King Center, with hip-hop headliners Metro Boomin and J.I.D. on the first night and electronic music DJs Subtronics and Bunt on the second.
The nighttime concerts, announced earlier this week, are set to follow the first two days of a three-day championship weekend that will transform the floor of the Superdome into a skate park, BMX course and motorcycle track, with more than 100 athletes taking part in 18 events and a $500,000 prize purse going to the winning team.
X Games CEO Jeremy Bloom speaks during a press conference at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Staff photo by Enan Chediak, The Times-Picayune)
X Games CEO Jeremy Bloom said the combination of concerts and action sports competition will bring together music, culture and athletics.
“New Orleans is one of the great event cities in the world, and this lineup reflects the scale and energy of what we’re building,” Bloom said in a statement announcing the headliners.
Friday’s bill at the Smoothie King Center features a pair of Atlanta-based rappers.
Metro Boomin, born Leland Wayne, has been one of the most influential hip-hop producers of the last decade, crafting chart-topping hits with Migos, The Weeknd and Future. He will be joined by J.I.D., born Destin Rose, who is signed to J. Cole’s Dreamville Records label and picked up two Grammy nominations this year.
Metro Boomin is scheduled to perform July 24 at the Smoothie King Center in conjunction with the first-ever championship of the X Games League.
Saturday’s lineup shifts from rap to electronic dance music.
Philadelphia-based producer and DJ Jesse Kardon, who performs dubstep music Subtronics and is himself an avid skateboarder, has headlined major EDM festivals. He has been booked alongside Bunt, the project of German producer Levi Wijk, who layers samples of acoustic instruments over dance beats.
The New Orleans championship weekend will conclude the first season of the restructured X Games, the extreme sports competition founded by ESPN in 1995 and sold to private equity firm MSP Sports Capital in 2022.
Instead of annual summer and winter events with athletes competing for medals as individuals, the new MoonPay X Games League is a year-round, team-based format.
Four clubs, representing Los Angeles, New York, Sao Paulo and Tokyo, drafted 40 athletes in March. The season opens in Sacramento, California, on June 26, and heads to Chiba, Japan, for the first weekend in July before concluding in New Orleans.
Kevin Peraza practices for the Men’s BMX Street Elimination round at X Games California, Friday, July 21, 2023, in Ventura, Calif.
This year’s event is expected to draw up to 20,000 visitors per day during the annual summer tourism slump, with ABC and ESPN scheduled to air 13 hours of television coverage.
Jay Cicero, president and CEO of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, said city officials had made a bid to host the 2018 X Games, the second of four years awarded to Minneapolis, but those plans were put on hold by planned Superdome renovations.
Cicero said he believes the X Games audience, which skews younger and more adventurous, is a natural fit for New Orleans.
The Caesars Superdome will play host this summer to the inaugural championship of the X Games League, a three-day extreme sports competition e…
“Hopefully it’ll be a multi-year event,” Cicero said. “I think that’s gonna come down to what they do business-wise here, their experience at the Caesars Superdome and the Smoothie King Center for the concerts, and then the service that we provide them.”
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