The Tactical Games just got a whole lot bigger.
Today, The Tactical Games announced that SIG Sauer has signed on as the title sponsor for the 2026 season. This isn’t just another logo on a banner. This is one of the largest firearms manufacturers in the world putting its full weight behind what’s become the fastest-growing fitness and firearms sport out there.
If you’ve been competing in or following The Tactical Games over the past few years, you’ve watched it evolve from a niche event series into something with real momentum. The 2025 National Championship in Burnet, Texas drew the largest field in the event’s history. The live broadcast brought the sport to viewers who couldn’t make the trip. Athletes who started as weekend warriors are now training year-round with the kind of dedication you see in established competitive shooting disciplines.
This SIG partnership feels like the next logical step—but also a signal that the sport has officially arrived.
The announcement came through The Tactical Games social channels today, and while they’re promising more details soon, we can piece together what this means from the prize structure and schedule they’ve already released for 2026.
The headline number is the cash purse at Nationals. For the first time, The Tactical Games will pay out cash prizes to the top five finishers in both Men’s and Women’s Elite divisions. First place takes home $20,000. Second gets $10,000. Third earns $7,500. Fourth place walks away with $5,000, and fifth place receives $2,500.
That’s $45,000 per division at Nationals alone.
But it doesn’t stop there. The 2026 Points Race—the season-long cumulative standings that reward consistency across multiple events—will also pay out. The top finisher in Men’s and Women’s Elite earns $10,000 for the season points championship. First place in the age divisions (40+, 50+, 60+) and Tactical division takes home $5,000.
Add it all up, and we’re looking at serious money on the line. That changes the calculus for athletes deciding how many events to attend, how hard to train in the off-season, and whether competitive tactical shooting can become more than just an expensive hobby.
SIG Sauer isn’t a company that dabbles in competitive shooting—they’re all in.
Their fingerprints are already across the sport at every level. SIG has been a major sponsor of Practiscore, the scoring app that runs virtually every competitive shooting match you’ve attended. They built their own competition series with SHOOT SIG, designed to bring new shooters into the sport while giving experienced competitors another venue to test themselves. Team SIG fields some of the top professional shooters in the world, and you’ll find them competing across USPSA, Steel Challenge, IDPA, and beyond.
When SIG shows up to events, they don’t just buy banner space. They bring their shooting team, demo products for competitors to handle, and company reps who actually know the gear. Their involvement with The Tactical Games during the 2025 season followed that same pattern—visible, engaged, and genuinely invested in the competitor experience.
A title sponsorship takes that involvement to another level. While the specifics of SIG’s on-the-ground activation for 2026 aren’t confirmed yet, their track record suggests we’ll see more than just logos. Expect demo bays. Expect their pro shooters on site. Expect product integration that goes beyond standard sponsorship fare.
For competitors, this could mean better prize tables, more gear opportunities, and the kind of industry attention that helps grow the sport beyond its current footprint.
This isn’t The Tactical Games’ first major title sponsorship—and that matters.
Under Armour held the title sponsor role from 2023 through the 2025 National Championship, a three-year partnership that broke new ground for the shooting sports. When UA signed on at the end of 2022, it marked something we hadn’t really seen before: a global athletic apparel brand investing at the title level in a firearms competition. They saw what competitors already knew—that The Tactical Games demands genuine athleticism alongside shooting skill—and they put serious resources behind it.
That partnership helped legitimize the sport in ways that extended beyond the shooting community. It signaled to other brands, to media, and to potential competitors that The Tactical Games was more than a niche event series. It was something worth paying attention to.
SIG Sauer stepping into the title sponsor role builds on that foundation. The fact that The Tactical Games has now attracted consecutive major sponsors from completely different industries—first athletic apparel, now firearms manufacturing—demonstrates something important about the sport’s viability and appeal. This isn’t a one-off sponsorship deal that might evaporate. It’s a pattern of sustained investment from serious companies.
What SIG brings is different but complementary. Under Armour connected The Tactical Games to the broader athletic world. SIG Sauer roots the sport firmly in the firearms industry where it ultimately lives.
Speaking of gear—2026 might be the season we see SIG’s new P211-GTO make waves on the firing line.
The P211 is SIG’s first entry into the double-stack 1911-style pistol market, and they clearly built it with competitive shooters in mind. The spec sheet reads like a wish list for anyone who’s been frustrated by traditional 2011/double-stack 1911 limitations.
The biggest deal is magazine compatibility. The P211 uses SIG’s proven P320 magazines. If you’ve been in the 2011 game, you know how expensive and sometimes finicky those proprietary double-stack mags can be. P320 magazines are widely available, reasonably priced, and have been battle-tested through SIG’s military contracts. Each P211 ships with one 23-round and two 21-round magazines, so you’re not scrambling for capacity right out of the box.
The 4.4-inch bull barrel comes paired with SIG’s MACH3D compensator, a 3D-printed muzzle device that SIG claims reduces muzzle rise by 30 percent. That’s a factory-integrated comp solution—no gunsmith fitting required. For competitors running hard transitions between targets or managing split times, that kind of flat shooting matters.
The trigger is a skeletonized flat-blade design pulling at 3.5 to 4 pounds. The frame is stainless steel with an alloy grip module, bringing total weight to just over 46 ounces. That’s heavy, but heavy means stable. The slide comes optics-ready with the SIGLOC PRO footprint, and the RXSL variant ships with a factory-mounted red dot if you want a true ready-to-run setup.
At $2,399.99 MSRP, the P211-GTO sits in competitive territory for the 2011 market. Whether it becomes the go-to choice for Tactical Games competitors remains to be seen—the sport’s emphasis on running, obstacle work, and unconventional shooting positions creates different demands than flat-range disciplines. But SIG clearly designed this pistol for competition, and having the title sponsor’s flagship competition pistol available right as the season kicks off is no coincidence.
The 2026 calendar is ambitious. Sixteen events spanning February through November, with stops across the United States and continued international expansion into Europe.
The Tactical Games made their first move overseas in September 2025 with an event in Pawłów, Poland. That wasn’t a test balloon—it was a proof of concept that European competitors are ready to embrace the sport. The 2026 season doubles down on that momentum with multiple international stops.
The season kicks off February 21-22 in Burnet, Texas, then moves to Holt, Florida in mid-March. From there, competitors can chase points through Arizona, Missouri, Texas again, South Carolina, and beyond.
Here’s the full schedule:
Burnet, Texas runs February 21-22. Holt, Florida follows March 14-15. Kingman, Arizona hosts April 11-12. Bland, Missouri takes April 25-26. Mountain Home, Texas is May 9-10. Laurens, South Carolina runs May 23-24.
Then back to Europe.
Pawłów, Poland returns June 6-7. This event runs in partnership with KOBE Tactical Gym, the only facility in Europe dedicated specifically to Tactical Games training. They’ve been building a European competitor base for years, and their work is paying off with a permanent spot on the calendar.
The schedule continues with Rupert, Idaho on June 20-21, Searsboro, Iowa July 11-12, and Missoula, Montana July 25-26. Epping, New Hampshire brings the sport to the Northeast August 8-9.
Then comes Rome, Italy—August 22-23. A second European stop in a single season signals serious commitment to international growth. How Italian competitors stack up against the established American and Polish fields will be one of the storylines to watch.
Back stateside, Garrettsville, Ohio runs September 12-13. Moyock, North Carolina follows September 26-27. Phoenix, Arizona hosts October 10-11.
The season culminates with the 2026 National Championship, November 13-15. The venue hasn’t been announced yet, but given the growth trajectory and the prize money at stake, expect something big.
If you’re already competing in The Tactical Games, this announcement validates what you probably already felt: the sport is real, it’s growing, and it rewards athletes who take it seriously.
The cash prizes change the competitive landscape. When there’s $20,000 on the line for first place at Nationals, the intensity ratchets up. Athletes who might have approached Nationals as a fun capstone to their season will now be peaking for it. Training programs will get more structured. Recovery protocols will matter more. The gap between casual competitors and dedicated athletes will likely widen.
The Points Race payouts also shift strategy for the season. If you’re chasing that $10,000 Elite points championship, you need to think about which events to attend, how to manage travel and recovery between them, and whether consistency matters more than occasional peak performances. That’s a different kind of planning than just showing up to local matches and seeing what happens.
For athletes in the 40+, 50+, 60+, and Tactical divisions, the $5,000 first-place Points Race payout is meaningful recognition. These divisions have always been competitive, but financial incentives formalize the respect these competitors deserve.
Zoom out from individual competitors and look at what this partnership signals for The Tactical Games as a whole.
Major sponsorship dollars bring media attention. Media attention brings new competitors. New competitors create demand for more events, better venues, and improved infrastructure. That’s the growth flywheel every emerging sport needs to spin.
SIG Sauer’s involvement also lends credibility in industry circles. Other manufacturers watch what the big players do. If SIG sees value in title-sponsoring The Tactical Games, other brands might reconsider their own involvement—whether that’s through sponsorship, athlete support, or product development tailored to tactical competition.
The international expansion matters too. A sport confined to the United States has a ceiling. A sport with multiple European events—and the infrastructure to run them well—has a much larger potential audience. Poland and Italy are the building blocks. If those events continue to succeed, expect the international calendar to grow in future seasons.
There’s also the professionalization angle. Cash prizes, title sponsors, international events—these are the markers of a sport that’s moving from grassroots to established. That transition isn’t without growing pains. Some competitors love the scrappy, everyone-knows-everyone vibe of smaller events. As the sport scales, preserving that community feel while accommodating growth will be a real challenge.
But that’s a good problem to have.
The Tactical Games promised more details coming soon, and we’ll cover those announcements as they drop. Key questions we’re watching: What does SIG’s on-the-ground presence look like at events? Will there be changes to the competition format to accommodate the higher stakes? How will the international events integrate with the Points Race standings? And how many P211s will we see on the firing line by midseason?
For now, the takeaway is straightforward. The Tactical Games has a title sponsor with deep pockets and genuine investment in the shooting sports community. The 2026 season will pay out meaningful cash prizes. The schedule spans 16 events across the U.S. and Europe. And the trajectory suggests this is just the beginning.
If you’ve been on the fence about trying The Tactical Games, the 2026 season looks like a compelling time to jump in. If you’re already competing, the stakes just got higher.
Either way, we’ll see you on the firing line.
