Duel is the default Quickdraw match: opposite roles, one cable, two Portable Data Node units. Parent hub: PDN Single Player Modes · Quickdraw.

This is the front-door icebreaker: strangers meet, countdown, button press, device decides, uploads scores wirelessly.

In play

• Matchup: Hunter vs Bounty.
• Win: +1 Quickdraw Points and +1 Energy / Tokens.
• Loss: nothing.
• Same-role matches are Showdown (different scoring).

Posse

A live Duel can grow a Posse chain on either side. Rewards still follow the two Challengers at the head of the link; supporter boon is still open.

Device

• Role assignment, countdown, anti-mash timing, and result upload on the PDN (no referee in the loop).

Canon

Alleycat 2027 Game Design — PDN modes (Duel)