Skateboards grinding. BMX bikes flipping. Skid steers grading. These are some of the images captured during the 2026 MoonPay X Games League competitions. View them above and below in our photo gallery. During the inaugural summer season of the X Games’ new city team format, construction equipment was once again behind the scenes creating the traveling courses that elite athletes conquered from city to city. Bobcat served as the Official Equipment Partner of the 2026 X Games, helping construct jumps, ramps, takeoffs, landings, berms, transitions, and all types of event infrastructure for the BMX courses. From the press release:

“Delivering world-class action sports events requires world-class infrastructure and vision,” said X Games Chief Revenue Office Cherie Cohen. “As we launch the inaugural MoonPay X Games League, partnership with Bobcat ensures our venues match the extraordinary talent of our athletes. Bobcat’s equipment gives our build crews the precision and power needed to turn raw terrain into iconic competition stages, driving incredible value for our brand, our sponsors and our global fan base.”

Building the 2026 X Games League

The new MoonPay X Games League, or XGL, represents a major change for the 30-year-old action sports brand. This was the inaugural XGL season — the first season under X Games’ new team-based league format using city-based clubs. The summer league included four clubs representing Los Angeles, New York, São Paulo, and Tokyo. Each club had 10 athletes, split evenly between men and women.

The inaugural summer season traveled to three locations.

• Sacramento, California: June 26-28
• Chiba, Japan: July 4-5
• New Orleans, Louisiana: July 24-26 championship event

Bobcat helped build the dirt course in Sacramento and supported course preparation during the XGL summer season, which concluded with the championship in New Orleans. At New Orleans, crews spent weeks preparing the championship dirt course.

What Bobcat equipment helped build the X Games courses?

Bobcat says its equipment supported course preparation throughout the X Games partnership, “with the primary focus on building and fine-tuning the dirt track used for BMX competition,” noted the press release. The Bobcat equipment mix included:

• Compact track loaders
• Skid steer loaders
• Excavators
• Large wheel loaders

Building a BMX dirt course requires operators to move bulk material (think wheel loaders) and then progressively shape jumps, transitions, takeoffs, and landings (think CTLs and mini excavators). The work goes from heavy dirt moving to increasingly detailed finish work (think skid steers). Bobcat has some history here, too. I remember a few years ago the company working with BMX athletes as brand partners. It’s a good fit: precision dirt work for extreme athletes.

What does it all mean?

The application is exotic, but I feel the basic job isn’t. Compact equipment excels at building and earthmoving projects in tight urban environments, and they’re easy to transport from job to job. Contractors use these machines to grade building pads, shape drainage, backfill trenches, prep landscapes, and tackle finish work. Add a grading attachment and 2D or 3D grade control, and operators can bring some serious precision to all that dirt work. Maybe even building BMX bike courses.

Enough talk. Let’s enjoy some photos.