THE FUTURE OF COMPETITION SHOOTING.
NEWS & UPDATES
Your club is already a perfect fit for PCSL if it currently runs a successful USPSA, IDPA, 3-Gun, or similar match. See below for information on rules, divisions, and scoring.
Guidance on topics like stage design, best match directing practices, and sample stage videos will be coming soon. For now, the best way to get involved is to volunteer at your local club and learn from shooters who have a history of quality match directing and experience being range officers. Even if your club has not yet had a chance to try out a PCSL match, volunteering and getting involved in the match formats that they do already offer is the best way to advance practical shooting sports as a whole.
On club affiliation:
PCSL will never require clubs to affiliate in order to use the ruleset, format, targets, or divisions.
In 2026, PCSL is rolling out a club dashboard system which will allow seamless scoring uploads for affiliated clubs to have their shooters tracked by the PCSL’s Competitor Rating system - our modernized version of a shooting sport classification system.
FRICTIONLESS.
NO CLUB AFFILIATION REQUIRED.
As an open source ruleset, the PCSL rules can be taken, adapted, and modified to suit your club. There is no interaction required with PCSL in order to use or adapt the rules.
When making these adjustments, we ask that you clearly specify that the new rules document is an adjusted version of the official PCSL Ruleset. For example - “[CLUB/MATCH NAME] PCSL Rules & Divisions”. Or “PCSL Rules modified for [CLUB/MATCH NAME]”. As we begin offering club affiliation and different levels of matches later this year, rules clarity will start to become extremely important.
Alternatively, your club may elect to affiliate with PCSL and run the rules & divisions as provided. This option comes with additional benefits, including having your club’s match scores be input to our PCR classification system, and eligibility to run official PCSL major events that have a higher impact on competitor’s PCR adjustments.
THE MOST FLEXIBLE OF ANY COMPETITIVE SHOOTING FORMAT.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PCSL GOING FORWARD:
Until now, we’ve been primarily focused on fine tuning the details of the game.
PCSL will see a heavy shift from focusing on the details of the game to focusing on cultivating a strong community. This means the introduction of official club affiliations and competitor memberships. Additionally, we want to support clubs that are running their own PCSL events, and gather as much constructive input as we can to understand the needs of clubs - using that input to improve and polish the rulebook and introduce other useful features to the league.
What PCSL offers today is a practical competition shooting format brought into the modern era. We’ve managed to not only expand the accessibility of competing in shooting sports, but also drastically increased the skill ceiling of our format at the highest level.
By introducing simple divisions focused on real-world modern equipment, and an easy to understand common sense rulebook, PCSL makes it extremely easy to jump in and start competing for shooters from all different backgrounds.
By introducing a re-imagined target that demands a higher accuracy standard than other shooting sport alternatives, and by retaining the perfect balance of points-per-second (or “hit factor”) scoring, PCSL pushes the skill ceiling of competition even higher, making space for new legends to make names for themselves and push the boundaries of what we believe to be possible on a course of fire.
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