What Guard Games Tests
Most competitive shooting measures one thing: how well you place rounds on a calm, static line. Your heart rate is low. Your hands are steady. Nothing has asked your body to work before you press the trigger. That is a useful skill, but it is not the whole picture. Real performance happens when you are already taxed, when your lungs are burning and your hands are shaking, and you still have to make the shot. Guard Games is built to test exactly that.
The concept is simple to state and hard to do. Guard Games is a competitive event format that sits at the intersection of physical fitness and firearms performance. It does not ask whether you can shoot. It asks whether you can shoot accurately after your body has been pushed. That distinction is the entire point. Pulse, fatigue, and stress degrade marksmanship in measurable ways, and the only honest way to know where you stand is to put both demands together in one event.
Why Fitness and Firearms Belong Together
Separating fitness from shooting is a habit, not a fact of the work. In the field, the people who carry a firearm professionally rarely get to choose their condition when it matters. They sprint, they carry load, they climb, and then they are expected to perform with precision. Training each half in isolation builds two competent halves that have never been forced to operate as one.
Guard Games closes that gap by scoring the whole chain. The format draws directly from the work already happening at the facility. Fitness and Firearms sessions run biweekly and pair functional movement with live-fire shooting, and Guard Games extends that pairing into a competitive structure. The goal is not spectacle. It is an honest measurement of capability under realistic stress, the kind you cannot fake on a static line.
The Infrastructure Behind It
A format like this needs ground that can hold it, and the facility was built with that in mind. Three pieces of infrastructure make Guard Games possible on 158 acres in Cumby, Texas.
- The Dynamic Bay — 150 yards deep by 100 yards wide, with a 60-person capacity and full live-fire capability. Vehicles, aircraft fuselages, and buses are brought in for scenario work. This is the space that can absorb movement, distance, and props without compromising safety.
- The PT Area — the home of tactical fitness, functional movement, and load training. This is where the body gets taxed before the shooting starts, and it is the half of Guard Games most ranges simply do not have.
- The Shoot House Complex — 6,000-plus square feet across three independent leveled dry-fire structures, multi-room, and able to support simultaneous training tracks. It adds the close-quarters and decision-making layer that a flat range cannot.
Put those three together and you have something rare: a single site where a competitor can move through physical exertion, distance shooting, and structured scenario work without ever leaving the property. That is what allows Guard Games to be one continuous test rather than three disconnected drills.
Current Status — Honest About the Build
Guard Games is in development. The format is being designed and refined, and the facility is being built out to support it. There are no published dates, no fixed rule set, and no results to report yet. Anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing. The work is real and underway, but it is not finished, and pretending it is would do you no favors.
FIELD NOTE —The infrastructure is in the ground. The format is being shaped around it. What gets locked in will be what holds up under stress, not what looks good on paper.
Founding members carry a stake in this. Every Founding Member receives Guard Games founding-participant status as part of the membership, which puts them in the format from the start rather than as a late arrival. That cohort is capped at 75 spots, so the founding-participant pool is finite by design.
How to Get Involved Now
You cannot register for a Guard Games event yet, because there is not one to register for. What you can do is get on the list and stay informed as the format takes shape. The interest list is the front door, and it costs you nothing but a few minutes.
If competing under real fatigue is the standard you want to measure yourself against, the move right now is straightforward. Join the interest list at our events page to follow Guard Games as it develops and to be among the first to know when the format goes live.