Become a Sponsor

Sponsorship is critical to being able to build and compete large combat robots. By sponsoring our team, you are helping to make Torment Nexus a reality, while helping to encourage interest in STEAM and building a name for Canada on the combat robotics stage.

Cash sponsorships and in-kind services are both extremely valuable.

For more information on becoming a sponsor please contact matt.inglot@gmail.com

Matt Inglot

Matt is a business owner, software engineer, and self-taught maker who got hooked on robotics when Kilobots brought a tournament to the Calgary Makerfaire. He designed, built, and entered the 1lb “Flesh Wound” into the rookie antweight class, where it proceeded to do so much damage that it was sternly promoted to the masters class for future competitions.

Matt has since extended his robot army to include the fairyweight “Tofu”, has obsessively refined the design of “Flesh Wound”, and of course is working away with the team on the 60lb Torment Nexus. He’s a big fan of the Battlebots TV show and looks forward to the day when we’ll be competing on the show!

Brian Cassin

Brian is a co-founder of the Alberta Robot Combat Club (ABRC) and the IT Manager at TELUS Spark Science Centre. He has been building competitive insect-weight combat robots since 2016, fielding 13 unique custom designed robots and winning multiple tournaments. Since helping found the ABRC in 2022, Brian has designed the ABRC’s arena, led its construction, built a multi-camera recording system for tournaments with automatic camera angle switching, and is always trying to grow the sport around Calgary and western Canada.

Brian’s 1lbs antweight robot, Super Nintendo Chalmers, was the first meltybrain (translational drift) robot to compete successfully at Kilobots. Brian is using Chalmer’s firmware as a base to develop a more advanced version to control Torment Nexus.

Jeremy St. Laurent

Jeremy is a second year Bachelor's of education student at the University of Alberta. He joined his high school’s FIRST Tech Challenge team in 2018, became captain in his second year and led his team to two top 5 qualifications in provincial level competitions. He taught himself CAD design in Autodesk Fusion at the age of fifteen. He now mentors a team and is the lead robot inspector for the province of Alberta.

His combat experience extends to three unique robots of his own design and one kit bot that got him started in the sport that he has since heavily modified. Torment Nexus is the First combat robot over 3lbs that he has designed and the design has an emphasis on simplicity, repairability and durability. Jeremy’s designs always tend to steer to the slightly unusual, his second custom design “Real Virtuality” was a walker type bot that moved around using the gyroscopic force of its own weapons.

Slade Chase

Slade is a young roboteer known for his creative art choices in his bots. He’s in high school, taking art and robotics classes, and hoping to have a career in art. He grew interest growing up watching the 2016 season of battlebots, then joined his first competition in 2022 (Kilobots 46), going 1-7 with a bot called ‘Foxtrot’. Then most notably a robot called ‘Salamander’ won second place in its second event (Slade’s 3rd), and ‘Foxtrot’ won best looking at Kilobots 51.

Slade will be guiding the artistic choices on Torment Nexus, from designing the logo, to designing the merch!

Brendan McClure

Brendan has been involved with robot combat since 2001, first attending Battlebots season 5.0 in 2002 and first competing at Kilobots II in 2003. He has a degree in Engineering Physics, graduating from the University of Alberta in 2003. He possesses decades worth of robot combat knowledge and experience, as well as a strong desire to think outside of the box. One of his current robots is 'The Abyss', a 1 lb control robot - made out of paper - that placed first at Kilobots 50.

Brendan will be pouring the wheels of Torment Nexus, and sharing his knowledge and experience of building larger robots to the team. He also first suggested the name!