When another YouTube user surprised me with a piano solo rendition they wrote of the theme tune to the US game show "Duel," I wanted to do it myself, but was frustrated with how to approach it. In the end, I settled for doing it for a saxophone quartet.

The show itself is described as a cross between "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and the World Series of Poker. Contestants began the game with 10 chips, worth $5,000 each, for a total of $50,000. (In the second season, they had no monetary value, and the value of the duel increased with each question.) Host Mike Greenberg would ask them a question with four possible answers, and contestants were asked to place chips on at least one answer. As long as they had the chips in their possession, they could cover up to all four answers. All chips on wrong answers were lost. As soon as one player ran out of chips when their opponent was covering the correct answer, the opponent won. Each player was also given 2 presses ("accelerators" in the UK version), which, when used, forced their opponent to answer within 7 seconds.

Unlike the UK version, which eliminated both players for good if neither one covered the correct answer, the US version required a winner, so a sudden death shootout was played. In the shootout, the players received four chips (with no monetary value), and no presses were allowed. The player that used the fewest amount of chips to cover the correct answer wins; if nobody covered the correct answer, the question was discarded and replaced with a new one (and left unaired in the final broadcast).

The first season used a tournament format, with the four that had won the most duels competing for the full jackpot (the jackpot increased with every chip lost during regular duels; chips lost in the shootout did not contribute to this). The second season instead used returning champions, awarding a bonus of $500,000 to anybody that won five duels in a row (only one person managed to pull this off).

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Information gathered from Wikipedia and all sources thereof
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music composed by David Vanacore
Duel © Rocket Science Laboratories, French TV, BermanBraun, and everyone else who owns the rights, and aired on ABC from December 17, 2007 to July 25. 2008.

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Theme I attempted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdf0EP3weBY
Piano arrangement by Serenity Rune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IC1WBUC_CI
Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRGvYC7E31o

(The first episode was 90 minutes in length; later episodes were shortened to 60 minutes.)