The Connecticut Wildcats have a team partnership with the Wests Tigers of Australia's National Rugby League (AMNRL), and with its two feeder teams, the Western Suburbs Magpies and Balmain Tigers.
Curtis Cunz is an American rugby league player for the Connecticut Wildcats in the AMNRL he is a former rugby union player for the Old Blue New York club in the USA Rugby Super League.
Like the other AMNRL teams, they started a team partnership with a club in Australia's National Rugby League (NRL), in this case the Canberra Raiders.
Rob Balachandran is an American businessman and rugby league football coach and former player for the New York Knights in the American National Rugby League (AMNRL) .
The origins of the Atlantic Cup go back to 2006, when the American National Rugby League (AMNRL) planned a tournament as part of an intended qualifying bracket for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.
In 2010 an internet fraudster posed as Koopu and contacted the AMNRL's David Niu, organising for him to play in the AMNRL with the Northern Raiders.