NEW ORLEANS — Encinitas skateboarder Bryce Wettstein helped XC New York win the first X Games League championship on July 26, contributing to a team result decided by just 10 points.
XC New York finished the league championship with 2,640 points, ahead of XC Osaka at 2,630. The inaugural title carried a $500,000 team prize. Wettstein placed fourth in women’s skateboard park during the New Orleans finale, adding her result to a format that combined athletes and disciplines under team scores.
A Different X Games Structure
The X Games League reorganized the familiar individual competition into a season-long team contest. Athletes still competed in their own events, but finishes generated points for clubs. That made a fourth-place result part of a larger championship calculation rather than an isolated line in an individual medal table.
XC New York and XC Osaka entered the deciding stage in contention. Across the league, scores from skateboarding and BMX accumulated toward each club’s total. The final margin — 2,640 to 2,630 — shows why points outside first place remained relevant. Wettstein did not win the women’s park event, and the official account does not require that claim to establish her role: her fourth-place finish counted within the championship team’s total.
The New York roster’s decisive moment came in BMX park, where Daniel Sandoval moved the club ahead on his final run despite competing with an injury, according to X Games. Mizuho Hasegawa completed the season as league most valuable player. Those distinctions belong alongside, rather than beneath, the contributions made by teammates across the schedule.
An Encinitas Connection
Wettstein is an Encinitas native and a graduate of San Dieguito Academy. She has represented the United States in women’s park skateboarding at the Olympics and has competed on X Games stages before the league format began. Her place on XC New York connected that individual record to the experiment in city-branded teams.
The league championship does not replace the women’s park standings with a claim that every team member won an individual event. Wettstein’s documented result in New Orleans was fourth. Her team’s documented result was first. Keeping the two results distinct explains both what she did and why it mattered.
The $500,000 figure announced by X Games was a team prize, not an individual payout attributed solely to Wettstein. The official recap describes XC New York claiming the championship and award as the league completed its first season. It also identifies XC Osaka as runner-up by the narrowest overall gap in the final standings.
For North County, the result adds a team championship to Wettstein’s competitive résumé and offers a local entry point into a new professional format. For X Games, the 10-point decision gave the inaugural league a clear demonstration of its premise: every placement can remain consequential when points are pooled across a roster.
Sources: X Games official championship recap; MiraCosta College; and North Coast Current.