X Video games: How you can Watch & When to Catch Free Music, Occasions

This weekend, athletes and followers will descend upon Aspen, Colo., to look at one among winter sports activities’ most anticipated competitions of the yr. From January 23 to 25, the X Video games returns to Buttermilk Mountain for its twenty fifth yr. Skiers, snowboarders, and — for the primary time since 2021 — snowmobilers will compete head-to-head for spots on the rostrum.

This yr, all daytime music and competitions will probably be free to the general public. That features headliners Alesso and Disco Traces. After darkish, X Video games mentioned its venue will rework into a totally outfitted music competition setting, with headliner concert events, extra dwell sports activities occasions, artwork, model activations, and a brand new function it’s calling the “X-Fest Fan Zone.”

Whether or not you’re watching from afar or attending in individual, right here is all the pieces you should know forward of X Video games weekend.

Occasions & Athletes

Greater than 150 athletes are competing within the 2026 Aspen X Video games. Rising stars and veteran execs will vie for rank and place because the competitors heats up. There are 5 occasions for each ski and snowboard: Huge Air, Superpipe, Knuckle Huck, Freestyle, and Slopestyle, all with girls’s and males’s divisions.

Previous X Video games have featured Snowmobile Snocross, Hillclimbs, and Greatest Trick competitions. Nonetheless, this yr can have simply two snowmobile occasions: Freestyle and Pace & Fashion. Since all rivals are male, there is just one division for every.

Huge names will compete for medals throughout all occasions. Alex Corridor, a six-time X Video games gold medalist skier and 2022 Olympic Gold Medalist, will probably be returning to defend his 2025 Knuckle Huck throne. Alex Ferraria, who has gained three X Recreation gold medals in SuperPipe and is on the U.S. Olympic Freeski Crew, will probably be competing together with his teammate Aaron Blunk.

Scotty James, an Australian snowboarder with seven X Video games gold medals, is on the roster alongside Purple Gerard, Taiga Hesegawa, and Zeb Powell — all of whom made the rostrum many occasions at earlier X Video games.

The snowmobile division is the smallest of the bunch, with simply 13 athletes listed on the X Video games web site. Brandon Cormier, Brett Turcotte, and Willie Elam should face off with one another, in addition to legends like Jackson Sturdy and Daniel Bodin.

For the total lineup of 2026 Aspen X Video games athletes, examine the X Video games athletes webpage.

How you can Watch

Most followers livestream the X Video games. So we’re beginning right here for the parents who can’t make the journey to Aspen however nonetheless need to watch the motion.

Fortunate for you, the X Video games makes it very straightforward to look at the competitors remotely. Go to the Watch web page on the X Video games web site. There you’ll discover competitors livestream hyperlinks and spotlight reels.

The webpage says that viewers also can watch the occasion on TikTok, Instagram, Fb, X, YouTube, Twitch, Roku, LinkedIn, and Threads.

The Schedule of Occasions

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday will function quite a few occasions for each women and men snowboarders, skiers, and snowmobilers. The schedule is as follows. All occasions will probably be livestreamed on the X Video games Watch webpage and are in Mountain Normal Time (MST).

Friday, January 23

• 12:00 p.m. – Ladies’s Snowboard Slopestyle (FREE to attend)
• 1:45 p.m. – Ladies’s Ski Knuckle Huck (FREE to attend)
• 4:45 p.m. – Ladies’s Snowboard Superpipe
• 6:16 p.m. – Ladies’s Ski Superpipe
• 7:30 p.m. – Males’s Ski Huge Air
• 8:45 p.m. – Snowmobile Freestyle

Saturday, January 24

• 10:30 a.m. – Ladies’s Ski Slopestyle (FREE to attend)
• 12:45 p.m. – Ladies’s Ski Huge Air (FREE to attend)
• 1:30 p.m. – Ladies’s Snowboard Knuckle Huck (FREE to attend)
• 4:30 p.m. – Snowmobile Pace & Fashion Seeding Session
• 5:45 p.m. – Ladies’s Snowboard Huge Air
• 6:45 p.m.- Males’s Snowboard Huge Air
• 7:45 p.m. – Males’s Ski Knuckle Huck
• 8:30 p.m.- Males’s Snowboard Superpipe

Sunday, January 25

• 10:30 a.m. – Ladies’s Ski Slopestyle (FREE to attend)
• 12:00 p.m. – Males’s Snowboard Slopestyle (FREE to attend)
• 4:00 p.m. – Snowmobile Pace & Fashion
• 5:15 p.m. – Males’s Snowboard Knuckle Huck
• 6:00 p.m. – Males’s Ski Superpipe

If You’re Attending

There are each ticketed and unticketed parts of the video games for individuals who can see them dwell. All music and occasions will probably be free to the general public earlier than 4 p.m. every single day this yr. After that, you’ll want tickets to enter the occasion — that are offered out. Should you haven’t already purchased yours, you’ll have to attend till subsequent yr.

Music Schedule

Dwell music will happen on the base of Buttermilk Mountain, under the large air jumps and half-pipe. Digital DJ Disco Traces will headline the stage on Friday night time. Saturday’s featured act is dance music artist Alesso.

Whereas each headliners are a part of the ticketed portion of the X Video games, their openers are free to the general public in the course of the day.

Friday’s Music

TESSLA – 2:30 p.m. (FREE to attend)

Disco Traces – 10:00 p.m.

Saturday’s Music

Elliot Sloan – 1:45 p.m. (FREE to attend)

Kendoll – 2:15 p.m. (FREE to attend)

Girlfriends – 3:15 p.m. (FREE to attend)

Alesso – 10:00 p.m.

Different Reveals & Aspen Events

Afterparties at Stomach Up

Aspen’s Stomach Up venue will probably be internet hosting the identical headliners because the X Video games, simply in reverse order. So, when you don’t have a ticket to Alesso or Disco Traces, and desperately need to see them, you would possibly nonetheless have a shot. That’s, when you’re keen to cough up a few hundred {dollars} for the present.

Alesso performs Stomach Up on Friday, January 23, and as of this writing, GA tickets ($222) and reserved tickets ($684.25) are each nonetheless obtainable on-line.

Disco Traces performs Stomach Up on Saturday. Nonetheless, you’ll have to hitch a waitlist when you don’t have already got tickets.