Ultra-competitive hustler Alexis Conran takes on experts and champions in gruelling head-to-head challenges, to see if he can short-cut his way to victory. In our first episode, Alexis combines Mother Nature and an unimaginable science experiment in an attempt to beat a world champion angler; comes up with an ingenious plan to hopefully outsmart a spelling champion; and travels to Poland to flex his muscles against the world's strongest man.