The team, led by Captain Troy Bacon and Co-Captains Dillyon Banks and Jake Kantor, has recruited Head Coach James Obilo.

The team, composed primarily of athletes and hip-hop musicians from the historically black Florida A&M University,[1][2] was recruited through word-of-mouth advertising and social media posts.

Team member Dillyon Banks felt that the training regiment of two sessions per-day was demanding, remarking that "there were people throwin' up on the field.

[3] Captain Kushim Sun Rey remarked that "if you're on defense and one person makes a wrong move, you can end up losing major points.

"[3] The Hindustan Times felt that the U.S. team were a "quirk" of the tournament, "even by its regular standards considering pharmacists and engineers are competing against monks and fishermen", but stood out from others with their display of hip-hop culture, reporting that "their dreadlocked players take to the kabaddi mats with their nicknames on their backs.

"[2] It was argued that the presence of the U.S. and other newcomers was a sign that the sport of kabaddi was experiencing "[a] revolution from dusty provincial pastime to international media spectacle", and could begin to develop a following in the United States.