[Dr. Boogie]

I've watched a couple episodes of it.

It comes across like a giant nerd battle. The team representing each warriors does a demonstration of a weapon, the other team comes in to marginalize it, then they bicker for a little bit.

They basically take a handful of weapons, group them into categories, and compare them. Then they give one warrior the "edge" in the comparison. The thing is, sometimes the results start to look skewed in one warrior's favor, so they have to start making some creative interpretations to justify a more even split (a blowgun dart is more deadly than a spear to the chest).

I guess really, it's less like a nerd fight, and more like a fight between what jocks think nerds are like. They make a lot of simple mistakes in their tests (mostly in the name of making it look like an even match), and one of the guys who crunches the numbers is called a "computer whiz".

In the pirate vs. knight episode, for instance, they kept making a big stink over how the knight's platemail was turning aside nearly all the pirates weapons. Then, they decide to test a pirate's cutlass vs a knight's broadsword but cutting pigs in half, but decide to gloss over the armor thing that they'd been harping on since the first test.

It's mostly a lot of fluff around a handful of unscientific tests to show how medieval weapons could explode gel dummies filled with red dye.