WatchESPN streamed all 20 hours of coverage as well as three hours of original content on ESPN3 and ESPN3D will telecast all 21.5 hours of live X Games coverage. Nearly 44 million people tuned into X Games on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC during the four-day event. On Friday, August 6, X Games 10-year attendance hits the two million mark. Six out of eight telecasts were among the top ten most-viewed in Winter X history, including the final night and most-viewed Winter X telecast ever – Sunday night in 1,117,000 households. During the four-day event, ESPN aired 31 hours of original X Games content, and for the first time, delivered nine hours of X Games content live in 3D. For the first time, X Games was aired 24 hours each day of the event using ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, ESPN Classic, EXPN.com, ESPN360, Mobile ESPN, ESPN International, iTunes and provided unprecedented round-theclock coverage including a first-ever Pay-Per-View offering for BMX Big Air and an X Games Moto Madness demonstration. 198,000 spectators attend the first Extreme Games. In late June, approximately 200,000 spectators turn out for X Games II in Newport, R.I. Kiteskiing. For 23 years, The X Games have been the rhythm of the lives of the champions of skate, BMX, motocross and many others. ESPN management decides to devote significant resources to the creation of an international gathering of action sport athletes. Published January 26, 2020 Updated January 26, 2020 . For the first time in the event’s more than 20-year history, an X Games event took place in Australia – X Games Sydney held at Spotless Stadium. Young male and people demos were up double digits from last year. In July, ESPN’s European X Games Qualifier II saw athletes from 20 European nations compete in front of 35,500 spectators who came to Barcelona’s Olympic Pier to witness three whole days of adrenalin action. Additionally, the event was telecast on ESPN International networks in the U.S., Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and Africa. As should be expected from such a dynamic event, the biggest moments from the weekend drove most of the spikes in social media conversation, namely Ryan Williams’ Big Air backflip and Mitchie Brusco’s 1260 spin – both feats never before seen in competition. On Saturday, May 29, KIA X Games Asia attracted a record-breaking number of fans with 24,300 throughout the day. In addition to the competitive events, Freestyle Moto X demonstrations were showcased by some of the world’s best riders. Kicking off the weekend with an announcement between ESPN and ASC, it was announced that X Games will remain in Aspen for five additional years, through 2024. The telecast aired on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC and featured a live Bike Stunt Vert competition on ABC. The total on-site attendance for X Games Minneapolis 2018 was 119,000. X Games Eight was the most-watched X Games ever as nearly 63 million people tune in on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC Sports. More than 30,000 attend the event in January, which features more disciplines, including women’s Freeskiing. Crested Butte is once again the site for Winter X Games Three. In addition to being the most viewed X Games ever, a record number of fans consumed the extensive X Games 15 content featured across ESPN and ABC's global distribution platforms, including television, internet, iPods, mobile and more. Results from both venues will be combined for an overall team score. After thinking about Moschino x The Sims: Gaia Online x? Winter X Games Nine is held for its fourth consecutive year in Aspen/Snowmass, Colo. Jan. 29 – Feb. 1, and is aired live on ESPN and ABC. On the final day of Winter X Games 11, the Sunday primetime telecast (1/28/07) was ESPN’s most-viewed telecast in Winter X Games history with 925, 377 households and the highest-rated Winter X Games telecast since 1997. XGames.com also saw double-digit growth, with an increase of 42% in total minutes spent from 2018. Tony Hawk, Dave Mirra, Bucky Lasek, and Travis Pastrana; these are your typical X Games names. Jun ‘20 26. On May 10, Touchstone Pictures and ESPN present the major motion picture ESPN’s Ultimate X to large-format theaters across the country. In October, it is announced that Rhode Island would be the location for the 1996 event. ESPN also produced 10 one-hour syndication shows for networks to air following the event. Total hours consumed on ESPN3.com, ESPN’s 24/7 sports broadband network, during X Games 16 was up 238 percent compared to 2009. X Games Mexico returns to Mexico City for a second consecutive year and is held at the Palacio de los Deportes on September 20 and 21, 2008. In addition, Marca TV aired a two-hour highlight special each night of the competition. A team assembles to develop the concept. Since the Extreme Games started in 1995, the world's best skateboarders across Vert, Park, Street, MegaRamp and video, have competed and pushed skateboard progression at the X Games. In total, 69,260 spectators came to cheer on their favorite teams at X Games Global Championship.On June 17, ESPN announces the return of Winter X Games to Aspen/Snowmass for a third winter – an unprecedented move for X Games. In January, over 100,000 fans watch athletes catch air in front of Kuala Lumpur's picturesque Twin Towers while competing in the Junior X Games and Asian X Games Qualifier presented by Toyota. ESPN management decides to devote significant resources to the creation of an international gathering of action sport athletes. Additionally, page views on the mobile web site were up 211% compared to the same time period last year. Winter X Games 12 returned to Aspen, Colo., with 72,500 fans in attendance. People aged 12-17 increases 10 percent from last year’s telecast. X Games 17, held in Los Angeles July 28 - 31, showcased 200 of the world’s premiere action sports athletes from 20 countries competing in front of 141,500 fans – the highest attendance in seven years – at STAPLES Center and Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE. This is a brief timeline on how the X Games arrived as the world’s signature action sports brand. An Olympic venue during the Lillehammer Olympics, Hafjell provided the perfect venue to host Big Air and Slopestyle contests all at the same venue. The event featured athletes competing in the diciplines of BMX Street, Skateboard Street, Moto X Best Trick, Moto X Freestyle, and Motox X Best Whip. KIA X Games Asia returned to Shanghai, China for the fourth consecutive year. ABC Online and ESPN3 specifically had27,000 unique viewers and 1.27 million minutes viewed, making up 10% of overall X Games viewing that year. Both events take place over four days featuring the top action sports competitions, world-class musical performances and an interactive festival village experience. Next up, X Games kicked off the largest action sports event ever to take place in Asia with X Games Shanghai. According to an article from National Geographic, the games get their name from several influences. On April 27, an announcement is made that X Games will remain in Los Angeles through 2009. Bangkok is home to the first ever Thailand X Games Cup March 24-27, where 14 of the world’s top action sport athletes perform a weekend-long demo in order to raise money and awareness towards the Dec. 26, 2004 Tsunami relief efforts. In January, the event name Extreme Games officially changes to the X Games. The second X Games Dubai presented by sponsor Mountain Dew returned to Dubai Creek Park from Dec. 1-3, 2006. From January 30 through February 2, the inaugural Winter X Games are televised to 198 countries and territories in 21 different languages. Since 2011 Silje Norendal competes at the X Games. Over 7,500 fans also attended the four X Games Music concerts in downtown Aspen’s Wagner Park. In collaboration with Samsung electronics, X Games Minneapolis delivered the first-ever X Games events streamed live in immersive VR exclusively to 48 countries on Samsung Gear VR through the Samsung VR app. More than 138,000 fans attended the competition at The Home Depot Center and STAPLES Center, an increase of nearly 13 percent over X Games 11 in 2005. The first Winter X Games staged internationally, Winter X Games Europe Tignes debuted in Tignes, France featuring men’s and women’s Snowboard SuperPipe and Slopestyle and Skiing SuperPipe and Slopestyle. The event featured 11 disciplines in the Skateboard, BMX and Moto X sports. Over 200,000 tuned into the three Park competitions and there was high fan engagement on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter throughout the weekend. ESPN and ABC televised a combined 21 hours of live X Games Austin content in high-definition from June 2-5, 2016. From May 12-14, 2006, X Games Asia presented by Kia returned to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia after the event was hosted by Seoul, Korea the previous year. In September, the X Games Xperience road show travels to Disneyland Paris, France. X Games Los Angeles 2012 celebrated its 10 years of X Games in Los Angeles and showcased 200 of the world’s best athletes in skateboarding, Moto X, BMX and Rally from June 28—July 1. Digital interaction also increased, with the average daily unique visitors across XGames.com and the app up 10% from 2013. Returning to Aspen for the 13th consecutive year, X Games Aspen 2014 provided the perfect preview to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Across the telecasts on ESPN, viewing by fans 18-34 increased by +34% year-over-year. ESPN also produced 10 one-hour syndication shows for international networks to air following the event. It also captures the sought-after 12-17 year-old demographic, which achieves record results. The shows combined for more than 236K views. ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN 3 provided 34 hours of live coverage. More than 150 athletes from 15 countries came to Brazil to compete. Featuring 21 televised coverage hours in high definition, fans were able to consume content on more platforms than before including ESPN.com/action, ESPN 3D, XGames.com, ESPN3 and X Games social media sites. It seems like every year something amazing happens at X Games. All 21 hours of the event was also simulcast on ESPN’s international broadband platforms to 40 countries across Australia, Europe and Latin America. A record for largest Friday attendance at X Games Aspen was set this year with 32,000 spectators. For the first time in the event’s more than 20-year history, an X Games event took place in Australia – X Games Sydney held at Spotless Stadium. The event featured more than 200 of the world’s best action sports athletes competing for medals and prize money in BMX, Skateboard and Moto X disciplines and world-class musical performances from A Day To Remember, Flume and Minneapolis’ own Atmosphere. Travis Pastrana is the most widely-recognized motocross/supercross athlete in X Games history. WatchESPN carried every live and tape-delayed event on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3 across computers, smartphones, tablets and Xbox. … Mike Metzger landed the first back flip in motorcross freestyle X Games history over an 80 foot gap. The athletes perform on the Vert ramp but also touch more than 150 children whom they visit at Thailand’s most famous and largest orphanage. The event garners the highest viewership in the event’s 10-year history and a 47 percent increase from X Games Nine. . But the X Games, a collection of extreme sports competitions whose winter event takes place January 22-25, did not exist until ESPN (and its hipper offshoot, ESPN2) realized in … In late June, approximately 200,000 spectators turn out for X Games Two in Newport, R.I. Kiteskiing, windsurfing and mountain biking are replaced by wakeboarding. The new attendance record in Aspen with a total of 84,100 spectators over four days, beat the previous Aspen best of 76,150 set in 2007 – an increase of nine percent. A total of 7.7 live minutes were viewed on WatchESPN, up 34 percent. X Games Munich 2013, the second stop of the European events took place June 27-30 with 47.5 hours of action across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 and ABC, including 26.5 hours on television and drew out over 119,000 spectators over the four-day event. Winter X Games 13 returned to Aspen, Colo., where ESPN and Aspen Skiing Company announced an agreement that will keep the Winter X Games in Aspen/Snowmass through Winter X Games 16 in 2012.The viewers at home and 68,100 spectators in attendance witnessed the world’s top winter action sports athletes compete in a new 22-foot SuperPipe, as well as the addition of two new disciplines making their debut –Women’s Skiing Slopestyle and Snowmobile Next Trick. You saw this one coming, right? The audience watching X Games programming on ABC was up +28% YOY. More than 100,000 fans on average attend each event each year. The primary reasons for the change are to allow easier translation to international audiences and better branding opportunities. On Friday, August 6, X Games 10-year attendance hits the two million mark. This also marked the first time ABC broadcast X Games Tignes. Featuring a new finals-only format that is telecast completely live, 150 athletes compete in Aggressive In-line Skate, Bike Stunt, Moto X, Skateboard, Surf and Wakeboard. X Games Aspen audience across ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC was up +10% YOY for all telecasts. The competition, held at the Shanghai International Tourism Zone adjacent to Shanghai Disney Resort, featured competition in Skateboard and BMX Street, Skateboard and BMX Big Air and Moto X Best Whip and Best Trick. More than 52,000 fans attended the three-day event despite rainy conditions. The event unites action sports athletes, sport legends, musicians and Hollywood celebrities, presenting the most explosive evening in the history of action sports. Additional venues are in and around Los Angeles, including the Los Angeles Coliseum. The final event of 2013, X Games Los Angeles, kicked off August 1 with 17 hours of live TV coverage on ABC and ESPN, with an additional 8.5 hours of coverage exclusive to ESPN3. In August, ESPN and The Mills Corporation announce a licensing agreement to build state-of-the-art public X Games Skateparks at several Mills retail centers across the country. For the first time in the X Games’ 21-plus-year history, severe weather forced two venue evacuations, but still delivered an estimated attendance of more than 100,000. June through July, some of the world’s top skateboarders and BMX athletes hit the road, traveling to skate parks across the United States as part of the inaugural Tony Hawk Gigantic Skatepark Tour, which is televised documentary-style on ESPN2. Those fans logged 4 million video views, up +210% year-over-year. X Games 12 was also ESPN's highest-rated X Games ever among young men in the 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 age groups. But in … Snow Summit Mountain Resort in Big Bear Lake, Calif., will host competitions in snowboarding, ice climbing, snow mountain bike racing, super-modified shovel racing and a crossover multi-sport event. Once again WatchESPN also experienced significant growth, with 16 million minutes of X Games content viewed, up 32%. More than 38,000 spectators make the trek to Big Bear Lake for four days of competition. X Games Nine makes its debut in Los Angeles August 14-17 in its primary venue at STAPLES Center. For the fourth consecutive year, X Games traveled to Oslo for X Games Norway. X Games Aspen 2019 shined on digital and social media, with more than 17 million video views throughout the event. ESPN also received record growth and engagement across all X Games social media platforms with the X Games Facebook page increasing nearly four-fold (up 284 percent) in “likes” and comments compared to the same days last year, X Games channel on YouTube achieving its most-trafficked week ever with video views up 192 percent from the same time period last year and the X Games Twitter name @XGames mentioned more than 20,000 times during the four days of competition and #XGames tweeted 69,000 times and reaching more than 21 million people. Over three days, 103,500 fans attended X Games Tignes. Total attendance for the event is 187,141, including a one-day attendance record on Saturday (8/16) with 67,500. The new Snowboard SuperPipe competition is added. The film chronicles the breathtaking highlights and dramatic stories behind X Games Seven and showcases the eye-popping skateboarding, BMX biking, Moto X, and street luge competitions on the giant screen for the first time. This year, the competition was held all in one jam-packed day, August 31, and featured Skateboard Street, Ski & Snowboard Big Air and Moto X Best Whip and High Air. Athletes in the Junior X Games compete for trips to Camp Woodward in the US, while medalists in the Asian X Games Qualifier earn spots to X Games Eight in Philadelphia, PA. March 21-24, ESPN along with its partners, hosts the inaugural Latin X Games Qualifier in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The first Winter X of the millennium features the largest crowds to date - 83,500 - and the debut of Winter X on the East Coast. Over 37,500 spectators attended the event and over 30 million households tuned into Globo’s coverage of the event. From June 24 through July 1, the Extreme Games are held in Newport, Providence and Middletown, R.I., and Mount Snow, Vt. X Games sports include Skateboard, Bicycle Stunt, Moto X and Aggressive In-line Skate; Winter X sports include Snowboard and Ski. Over X Games’ social media pages, Facebook grew by more than 60,000 and surpassed five million Likes; Instagram grew by more than 62,000 and surpassed one million followers on the platform; Twitter grew by more than 11,000 followers and was mentioned more than 210,000 times throughout the weekend. With more fan consuming the Winter X Games over our digital platforms, total hours of Winter X Games 15 viewed on ESPN3.com, ESPN’s 24/7 sports broadband network, was up 30% compared to last year. The extreme sports of mountain biking and snowboarding debuted at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games… … In addition, TV3 network in Spain broadcasted 13.5 hours of content on Esport3 and 5 hours of live content on TV3. Attendance over the four-day event is increased by more than 12,000 from last year, with a total of 48,700 spectators. A record number of fans attended the event on Saturday, reaching the 45,600 mark and a new single-day attendance record for Winter X Games. In May, ESPN announced a significant milestone in its long-term plans to expand the X Games on a global basis. Total attendance for the event is 187,141, including a one-day X Games attendance record on Saturday (8/16) with 67,500. Posted By: INC Staff Writer March 1, 2013. X Games Minneapolis 2018 content across ESPN’s television networks enjoyed double-digit growth on television, triple digit growth on digital and streaming services, and video growth across social media networks enjoyed triple digit growth across all pages. Many key demo groups (Men and Persons 18-24, 18-34, 18-49, and 25-54) also delivered their most-viewed Winter X Games, all up double-digits across the board from Winter X Games 11. Winter X Games IV are held February 3-6 in Mount Snow, Vt. Including all telecasts, the three networks garnered an average of 412,673 households, the highest in the event’s history and a 33% increase from the 310,810 average households for Winter X Games VI (2002). Venues include the Alamo dome in San Antonio, Texas for summer events and Whistler Blackcomb Resort in British Columbia for winter events. Through two weeks of Winter X Games 15 coverage (January 23-February 5), ESPN.com/Action generated more than 1.3 million visits and nearly 1.7 million video starts, up 47% and 11%, respectively according to Adobe. The 14th edition of Asia’s premiere action sports event will feature more than 150 athletes from more than 30 countries. ESPN also offered 23 hours of X Games Foz do Iguaçu original programming on ESPN, ESPN2 in the U.S. Over four days, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3 combined to present 29.5 hours of content from Brazil. X Games has gone global and after winter stops in Aspen and Tignes, we dipped down to Brazil for X Games Foz do Iguaçu 2013. Additionally, ESPN Media Distribution has reached nearly 20 syndication agreements across Europe, Middle East and Africa – including 10 agreements within Europe, and free-to-air distribution throughout Scandinavia and live streaming coverage via the ESPN Player streaming service. More than 200 of Latin America’s best action athletes from Skateboard, Bike Stunt, Aggressive In-line Skate and Wakeboard compete for a spot to X Games Eight. Attracting thousands of fans at the event and broadcasting to millions worldwide … ESPN’s digital media audience for Winter X Games content during the four days of the event, January 26-29, delivered an average minute audience of 2,300 unique visitors, up 147 percent from 2011. WatchESPN was available to 55 million households nationwide in the U.S. at no additional cost to fans who receive their video subscription from an affiliated provider. Additionally, ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC combined to televise 13 hours of original content in high definition and WatchESPN streamed all the coverage in the U.S. that carried live and tape delayed events on ESPN networks across computers, smartphones, tablets, and Xbox. Growth was led by WatchESPN viewing which made up 66% of the X Games digital audience. The X Games have become the most recognized competitions in extreme sports history. Additionally, ESPN X Games embraces 28 Olympians who excelled at Winter X Games 10 just weeks before they left for Torino. ESPN and ESPN2 televised 24.5 hours of live high-definition programming. TOPICS: 2012 winger x games aspen history of the x games history of x games winter x games aspen X games history x games history timeline x games in aspen. La Sexta/Neox broadcasteda two and a half hour highlights program each night of the competition as well. X Games started in 1995 with big street and park skateparks. The event features Aggressive In-line Skate, Bike Stunt, Skateboard and Wakeboard competitions and draws a record 92,907 fans. The first park opens in November at the Discover Mills mall in Gwinnett County, Ga., just outside Atlanta. Additionally and for the first time, ESPN and ESPN2 combined to televise 13.5 hours of tape-delayed, high-definition Winter X Games Europe content in the United States. Outside the United States, X Games content was delivered to more than 232 million homes and live to 192 countries and territories, including Africa, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Europe, Israel, Latin America, Mexico, Middle East and New Zealand. All the action took place in Oslo’s Telenor Arena, where skiiers and snowboarders entered the arena via a cut in the ceiling to take their Big Air runs. Around the globe, X Games 16 was delivered to more than 382 million homes and aired live to 175 countries and territories. Crested Butte is once again the site for Winter X Games III. ESPN successfully executes the inaugural X Games Global Championship, held May 15-18. Attendance over the four-day event is increased by more than 12,000 from 2002, with a total of 48,700 spectators. Now that we’ve gone through a history trip, I’ll do a fun little hypothetical collaboration thought experiment. The Road to X Games: Boise Qualifier was live on YouTube and XGames.com. Visits to XGames.com from a mobile device increased by 26% and the X Games app had nearly twice as many downloads during the week of the event than during the week of X Games Los Angeles 2013. ESPN successfully executes the inaugural X Games Global Championship, held May 15-18. From June 27 - July 4, X Games V in San Francisco attracts nearly 275,000 spectators. ESPN3.com distributed 18.5 hours of content, including live streaming coverage of all eliminations and finals. A total of 130 hours of live TV coverage across the six X Games events on ESPN networks in the U.S. and around the world will be supplemented by coverage on digital platforms, including a year-round action sports website. Over the course of its 25-year history, the X Games has seen more than its fair share of milestones. Starting with the kick off of the first ever X Games global simulcast, X Games 13 competitions and content were also featured on ESPN International networks, EXPN.com, ESPN Classic, ESPN 360.com, SportsCenter, and ESPN 2’s X Center. An additional 5.25 hours of competition was also carried exclusively on WatchESPN, as well as the latest coverage across ESPN digital platforms, including XGames.com, the X Games app, and social media channels. 1st February 2021. KIA X Games Asia was held in Shanghai for the sixth consecutive year and was once again the biggest action sports competition in Asia. 21.5 live hours of the event will also be simulcast on ESPN's international broadband platforms in 16 countries across Australia, Europe and Latin America. TV Globo, which produced the television coverage of the Latin American X Games the last two years, once again acted as host broadcaster. In April, X Games Foz do Iguaçu 2013 made is debut from Parque Inraero and Parque Nacional do Iguaçu in Brazil, Content totaling 29 hours were simultaneously distributed across multiple broadcast and digital platforms April 18-21. Over the three-day event, there were more than 2.3MM video views on Instagram and 2.5MM total impressions on Instagram stories. Another park course is added to accommodate the unique riding style of skateboarding. Heading into the event week, all music and hospitality options were sold out – leading to a record 117,000 attendance for the weekend. Other articles where X Games is discussed: extreme sports: … is generally attributed to the X Games, a made-for-television sports festival created by the cable network ESPN in 1995. Women’s Skateboard and Moto X exhibitions are featured. The event draws 36,300 spectators, as well as the entire 2002 U.S. Olympic Snowboard Freestyle team, all of whom compete in Winter X Snowboard SuperPipe just weeks prior to the Salt Lake City Olympics. Danny Harf landed a 900-degree spin in wakeboarding. The event was televised in high-definition for the first time on ESPN HD and ABC HD, and was ESPN’s most-watched in history with eight telecasts averaging 863,000 homes, up 17% from 2007. The number of unique visitors to XGames.com during the four days of Winter X Games 2012 was up 75 percent from 2011. The X Games Facebook page grew by 56,000, Twitter by 21,000 and Instagram by 49,000 during the week of the event. Additionally, ESPN’s flagship sports news show, SportsCenter, reports live from the event. Viewership on ABC on Saturday increased 30% over the previous year. From January 30 through February 2, the inaugural Winter X Games are televised to 198 countries and territories in 21 different languages. X Games currently stages two domestic flagship events each year – X Games Aspen in Aspen Snowmass, Colorado, and X Games Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota. X Games 11 is held in Los Angeles August 4-7 at The Home Depot Center, STAPLES Center, Long Beach Marine Stadium and Surfing’s new home of Puerto Escondido, Mexico. The 10th anniversary of X Games is held August 5-8 in Los Angeles for its second consecutive year. Winter X Games VII is held in Aspen, Colorado for its second year featuring the sports of Moto X, Ski, Snowboard and Snowmobile. Photography by QNIGAN . X Games Global Expansion kicked off in 2013 with its return to Aspen, Colorado for the 12th year of X Games Aspen which featured more than 150 athletes in 17 disciplines. For the first time, X Games was aired 24 hours each day of the event using ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, ESPN Classic, EXPN.com, ESPN360, Mobile ESPN, ESPN International, iTunes and provided unprecedented round-the-clock coverage including a first-ever Pay-Per-View offering for BMX Big Air and an X Games Moto Madness demonstration. Visit here or click on the photos above shot by ESPN Images’ Rich Arden to see larger versions for an even richer experience. Average viewers for X Games Extra were 26.7K per show, up 44% from X Games Aspen 2018 (averaged 18K viewers per show in Aspen). X-Games History - The World of Travis Pastrana Travis Pastrana is the most known in the world of X-Games. 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