Category: Compete

Lauren Kalil’s series with the 2025 Tactical Games National Champions continues with the man who pushed for the 60+ division’s creation—and then won it after literally dying on the firing line two years earlier. Jeff Craddock’s heart stopped working properly on September 3rd, 2023, at 3:12 PM. He was in Las Vegas, day two of a Tactical Games regional, knelt down to shoot from a barricade, and collapsed face-first into the dirt. He never moved

Lauren Kalil’s series with the 2025 Tactical Games National Champions continues with an athlete who took 31st place on one stage, 24th on another, and still walked away with the Men’s Tactical title. Tory Kirkland had never competed as an individual at Tactical Games Nationals before this year. He’d done plenty of team events—that’s actually how Lauren first met him back in 2023, when he was partnered with Bri. But individual competition? That was new

Lauren Kalil’s series with the 2025 Tactical Games National Champions continues with one of the sport’s true OGs—a competitor who got a stage DQ at Nationals and still walked away with the title. Meg Kennedy has been competing in Tactical Games since 2019, back when the women’s division was three or four athletes total. She won Women’s Elite in 2021, then watched the weights climb year after year until she made a decision that some