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OSA International debuts Elation Rebel Line 16 at X Games Music Festival

As the inaugural MoonPay X Games League (XGL) launched its first summer season in Sacramento, California, with nightly concerts, OSA International deployed newly acquired Elation Rebel Line 16 linear tilt bars on the event’s largest music production to date.

OSA - a production company with more than forty years of experience, headquartered in Chicago with production operations in Las Vegas and Nashville - invested in twenty-six Rebel Line 16 fixtures. The company, an early adopter of the fixture, selected the IP55-rated linear tilt bars to serve not only the growing X Games music production but also its diverse portfolio of corporate events, festivals, concert touring, and special events.

Held June 26-28, 2026, at Heart Health Park in Sacramento, the inaugural XGL Summer event marked the debut of a new global, team-based X Games format. As competition concluded each day, the venue transformed into a large-scale music festival featuring headlining performances by Kaskade, Subtronics, and Mustard. OSA, which has supported X Games productions for more than a decade, has been involved with the event’s expanding music component since 2024.

Production Lighting Designer Anthony Padilla designed a stage centered around a massive LED video “X”, flanked by chevron-shaped arrays of Rebel Line 16 fixtures mounted on raked truss to create a three-dimensional look. Alternating with each Rebel Line fixture were high-powered strobes.

“There were areas that needed more visual action, so I created these arrows stage right and stage left to accentuate the X and visually draw you in”, explains Padilla. “I needed a linear bar to shape those chevrons and add a dramatic line of pixels, something fun for the lighting designers to play with.”

OSA is in the process of building up its IP inventory and looked at various IP-rated linear fixtures. “We started looking at gear we could use on X Games that would also satisfy our day-to-day corporate and festival work”, says Padilla. “We wanted a dual-purpose fixture, something you could put on a festival stage but also use when there are cameras where color rendering matters.”

Across the X Games music performances, the Rebel Line fixtures became an integral part of the stage architecture, giving visiting artist lighting designers a system they could incorporate into their own programming. “I had 24 Rebel Line fixtures to play with, so they became much more than linear bars”, notes Padilla, who handled lighting for artists who did not have their own on-site crew.

“I could use them for uplight, curtains of light, washes, bursts, and pixel effects”, he adds. “Some of my favorite looks came from shutting everything else off - the video, the other lighting - and leaving only the Rebel Lines. They created these huge curtains and pockets of light through the haze. Then, boom, you bring the content back on the X.”

(Photos: Elation)

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