We reported in March that amateur sports enthusiasts could choose between the D.C.-area-based World Adult Kickball Association and a new nonprofit kickball league DCKickball for their summer kickball needs. Little did we imagine the two leagues would be at “war” two months later – or at least according to the City Paper, which vividly describes the tension between the two leagues in an article last week.

Although we have friends in both leagues and think the “war” is certainly partly the product of City Paper’s imagination, the new league has certainly been successful. Organized by Adams Morgan resident and former WAKA division head Carter Rabasa, DCKickball kicked off its inaugural season with nearly full rosters of almost 400 people, a corporate sponsor (Bud Light) and an official bar (Tom Tom’s). The technical saavy of the founder Rabasa (He has embraced Flickr and provides team blogs on the league website) even inspired this DCist to join a team.

With murmurs of making WAKA division presidents sign “division-affiliation agreements,” and threats of lawsuits flying about, we think it’s important to keep everything in perspective. There’s certainly enough room in D.C. for two kick ball leagues, and it even might fun to hold a kickball world series between the two top ranked teams at the end of the season. We think Rabasa had the right attitude when he pointed out in a recent blog post on the article that “There simply aren’t very many non-profit sports league around, and I think we’re proving that it’s a great formula that provides alot of value and fun to everyone involved.”

(The photo above illustrates DCKickball players playing “flip cup,” which the City Paper tells us has “assumed ritualistic significance” among D.C.-area kickball players.)