Courses of fire, or stages, are made up of five steel targets which are electronically timed to one one-hundredth of a second. Competitors shoot each stage five times with their slowest run eliminated. The combined time of the best runs is their score for that stage and their combined score of all eight stages is their match score.

Championships will be determined in the Women's, Senior, Super Senior divisions and in several categories including Rimfire, Stock and Open class Pistol/Revolver - the Formula 1 category of the shooting sports.

The Steel Challenge was established in the United States in 1981 by Mike Dalton and Mike Fichman to determine the world's fastest shooter. Since its inception, the Steel Challenge has seen competitors set new world records often only to see them fall moments later in the same match.