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'''Pitz''' is the most popular sport in the [[Mutul]] and the country's national sport. The Mutul is recognized worldwide as the birthplace of the sport, with an history going back thousand of years into antiquity. Modern rules for Pitz appeared in the 19th century as an evolution of "Legal Pitz", the ruleset used during trials as Pitz was considered a valid form of ordeal. the Itzamnaaj' Reforms got rid of this pluri millennial law, forcing Noble Houses, who had invested vast sums of money into maintaining "stables" of players, to either lay off their Pitz teams or to find new way to profit from those professionals. in 1848, the first professional Pitz league was created between four franchises of [[K'alak Muul]]. Its example was followed throughout the country. As the sport grew and connection between different parts of the Mutul became easier, those leagues either merged or disappeared until in 1950 the modern structure of Mutulese Pitz was codified, with the [[High Court (Pitz)|High Court]] at its top.
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[[Education in the Mutul|Highschool and College]] level Pitz is also extremely popular in the Mutul.
'''Simon David Maridates Smeleres''' is a [[Drevstran]]ese politician born the 18th of August 1947 in the village of [[Hirzent-Maria]]. He is part of the [[Smeleres political dynasty]]: his father is [[Mirkulash Smeleres]], a respected [[Yedviro]] party official and realtor and his mother [[Amaryllis Philaioui]], daughter of [[Maridates Philaioui]], a [[Mesogeia]]n expatriate gemstones trader who lived in [[Angrast]]. Through his father, he is a relative of the [[Siranko]] family, which trace its roots back to both [[Velikoslavia|Velerian]] and [[Lushyodorstag|Lushyod]] nobility. Lawyer by trade, he got into politics early on, joining the Youth-Section of [[Nepserot]] at the age of 16, and then became a party member at 20 but left to join the newly formed [[Yedviro]] in 1976. He served as party official, branch president, mayor of Hirzent-Maria, Delegate to the Parliament, Governor, before becoming President of Yedviro and ultimately Mervoret.


==History==
His 2009 campaign was cut short by the accusations of corruption and treason while serving as Mervoret brought against him by [[Mïgrai Bharamut]]. While he was found non-guilty on treason, the bad press brought by the trial and his condemnation for corruption while in office led to his destitution by the Yedviro Party which ultimately took away his card. He returned to politics in 2015 as an Independent, running for the Mayorship of his birthplace. His successful comeback and rekindled popularity has allowed him to rejoin Yedviro, ultimately returning to the position of President with the mission of winning the 2024 General Elections.
The first professional Pitz players appeared around 1400 CE as part of the [[Ilok'tab Dynasty]] legal system. While it had always been possible for Lords accused of wrongdoing to challenge the other party in a Pitz game as a form of {{wp|Trial by ordeal}}, it had been impossible for either party to substitute themselves and they had to play through the game. In the 15th century, as Pitz had shifted from an individual to a team sport, reforms to the justice system allowed legal parties to call upon champions to represent them. Great Houses began to gather "stables" of professional players to defend the family-members honor in and out of trials.  


==Organisation in the Mutul==
==Early Life==
===Amateur Pitz===
Simon Smeleres was born on the 18th of August 1947 at the St-Jon Bazimilion Hospital in [[Petrograve]] to [Mirkulash Smeleres]] and [[Amaryllis Philaioui|Smeleres]], born Philaioui. The Smeleres are a cadet branch of the wider Siranko family and arrived in [[Hetmoscar]], the northernmost region of [[Drevstran]] on the border with [[Arazija]], when the formation of the Triple-Crown when garrison towns were created on the border due to the risk of troubles from [[Ludvosiya]] spilling over. His grandfather, [[David Smeleres]] had been Magistrate of Petrograve and supported [[Prince Farza of Kaposlovar]] and his Golden Columns during the [[Drevstranese Civil War]] before serving as Deputy of Hetmoscar in the First Republic. His father Mirkulash inherited his father' position within the upper society of Petrograve. But the Smeleres would end up drawing the ire of [[Vernesto Skolad]]. David and his children, including Mirkulash, were arrested and imprisoned. David Smeleres would die in jail in 1949. Mirkulash and the rest of the family would only be freed in 1953 after the Black Streets Days and the creation of the Second Republic. He would be one of [[Nepserot]] first adherent in the north and represent the party in his region.
====Highschool Pitz====
The Mutul' 6144 secondary schools are grouped in divisions of four. Teams in a division face one another twice over six weeks. The team with the highest winrate is crowned champion of the division and goes to the next stage, where it face the winners of three other local divisions, generally the geographically closest ones. There are 1536 rank 1 divisions, then 384 rank 2, 96 rank 3, 24 rank 4, and finally 6 rank 5 divisions, called Circuits, of four teams each. After 30 weeks, the six Circuits champions face each others in a single-eliminations play-offs: the two teams with the highest winrate skip the first round and get a rest week before facing the two first round's winners in the semi-finales. The week 33 finale, called the Youthful Court, is consistently in the Mutul' top 5 Most Watched sport events of the year. It is the most popular amateur sport event in the country with, on average, 10 million spectators following the TV broadcast.


====College Pitz====
His maternal grandfather, [[Maridates Philaioui]], had moved from [[Mesogeia]] to Drevstran as a representative for his family' diamond, gemstone, and jewelries trade. He possibly chose to settle permanently in [[Angrast]] due to his [[Aletheic Church|Aletheic faith]] which has often been victim of persecutions in Mesogeia. In the end, he became a fixture of the capital' upper society. His daughter, [[Amaryllis Philaioui|Smeleres]], would meet Mirkulash Smeleres during a reception and the two married in 1946, 10 months before their first son birth. Amaryllis was arrested alongside her husband but was allowed to return in house arrest to take care of their underaged child.
There are 3155 tertiary schools in the Mutul offering college-equivalent education. They are divided between {{wp|Tēlpochcalli|Chok Nahob}}, opened to everyone and focused on teaching technical and practical skills for people wanting to join the job market with engineer-level degrees, and {{wp|Calmecac|Nawob}} who offer, mostly to Aristocrats and a selected few Commoners who have passed a Nawi' Annual Examination, a more scholarly education with longer studies. All of them possess either a Pitz Club (1899), an association of students practicing Pitz, or a Pitz Program (1256), an institution-supported team offering grands and support to its student athletes. Program Teams are all part of the [[Pitz Education Worshipful Federation]] and are grouped in 157 divisions of eight teams. All divisions play one another twice, leading to a 14 games season. Divisions are grouped in five geographical Conference: North (32 Divisions), West (31), Central (32), East (32), and South (30). Each Conference host its own Championship, with their own methods to determine a champion.


After the Championships, the five PEWC Champions face one another in the [[Cardinal Champions Court]], another PEWF competition where the five teams face each other twice. There are no elimination or finales: the team with the highest win rate at the end of the four weeks is crowned the PEWC Grand Champion.
In 1965, Simon Smeleres integrated the prestigious [[Saint Julian University]] in [[Angrast]], in its Legal Studies Cursus. At 23 years old, in 1970, he passed his bar examination and became an associated lawyer at [[Mount-Peregrin Legal Counseling]] back in [[Petrograve]], a firm partly owned by one of Mirkulash known friend. He served as a lawyer until 1976, when events would precipitate his political career.


Pitz Clubs meanwhile, are free to organise themselves in many different Federations and Leagues. There were, in 2024, 11 different Federations governing Pitz Clubs. Each federation organize itself differently, with their own codes and structures. By tradition, finales organized by those Federations are called 'Rings'. In 2023, there were 19 Rings organized by 10 Federations (the last one, the [[Pitz Club Northern Benevolent Federation]], refuse to organize post-season games). While "Club Pitz" is popular in its own right only Rings are commonly broadcasted and only to the organizing Federation' geographic area, although the rising accessibility of internet has helped propagate them, and it remain less followed than the PEWC' Championships and Cardinal Champions Court, which itself rarely overtake the Youth Ball in countrywide ratings.
==Political ascension==
====Amateur Leagues====
===Deputation===
At the bottom of the Mutul' Pitz leagues hierarchy are the Amateur Leagues, united in the [[Amateur Pitz Worshipful Federation]], they are divided in five levels: The {{wp|Batab}}il (Municipal), {{wp|Kuchkabal}} (County), {{wp|Ajaw|Yajawil}} (Provincial), Regional, and Royal levels. The Royal tier is itself subdivided into four leagues: the Black, White, Yellow, and Red Courts of 20 teams each. All five levels are tied together by a system of {{wp|Promotion and relegation}}, with for example the Regional Champions playing games against the five worst performing teams of the Black Court, the five highest ranked teams of this mini-tournament being promoted, or staying, in the Black Court while the other five are relegated to, or stay in, the Regionals. The Black Court is special in that it is the only level which demand such challenges to potential promoted teams: the champion of the Black Court for example goes on to replace automatically the worst performing team in the White Court.
The electoral failures of 1974 pushed Nepserot' inner divisions to the forefront, notably the critics against [[Sargaï Bharamut]] turned into outright hostility. In the end, the party split up in three, with [[Priatselvo]] and [[Baratsag]] parties going their own way before merging, alongside other fringe political forces, into a new party in 1976: [[Yedviro]].


Amateur clubs in the Mutul are necessarily not-for-profit organizations and it is illegal for their players and for their staffs to make a living of the team. Revenues, be they from ticket sales, merchandising, sponsorships, adhesion fees, or gambling events, must be used either on the team and by the team, or redistributed through charity. It is why many clubs prefer to register as semi-professional, for-profit organizations which allow them to legally pay a minimum salary to their staff and offer bonus to their players depending on their performances without necessarily offering them signed contracts. Teams at the Regional and Royal levels may also compete with professional teams. Only professional teams can be promoted to the next level of Mutulese Pitz: the Lower Court.
Simon Smeleres had followed the dissidents and joined Priatselvo and ultimately took his card at Yedviro. The relative lack of manpower allowed Simon to gain the support of the party as he ran for the Mayorship of Petrograve, where he remained a local figurehead of the Party from 1980 to 1990.
 
===Professional Pitz===
====Lower Court====
====High Court====
{{main|High Court (Pitz)}}
====International Selection====
{{see also|The Mutul chosen pitz team}}

Latest revision as of 01:18, 7 February 2024

Simon Smeleres
Simon smeleres.png
President of Yedviro
In office
2024
1997-2009
Yedviro Hetmoscar Branch President
In office
1991-1997
2021-2024
Mayor of Hirzent-Maria
In office
2015–2020
Mervoret of Drevstran
In office
1999–2004
Personal details
Born (1947-09-18) 18 September 1947 (age 77)
Drevstran
Political partyYedviro
Other political
affiliations
Independent (2014-2021)
Children5
ProfessionPolitician, Lawyer

Simon David Maridates Smeleres is a Drevstranese politician born the 18th of August 1947 in the village of Hirzent-Maria. He is part of the Smeleres political dynasty: his father is Mirkulash Smeleres, a respected Yedviro party official and realtor and his mother Amaryllis Philaioui, daughter of Maridates Philaioui, a Mesogeian expatriate gemstones trader who lived in Angrast. Through his father, he is a relative of the Siranko family, which trace its roots back to both Velerian and Lushyod nobility. Lawyer by trade, he got into politics early on, joining the Youth-Section of Nepserot at the age of 16, and then became a party member at 20 but left to join the newly formed Yedviro in 1976. He served as party official, branch president, mayor of Hirzent-Maria, Delegate to the Parliament, Governor, before becoming President of Yedviro and ultimately Mervoret.

His 2009 campaign was cut short by the accusations of corruption and treason while serving as Mervoret brought against him by Mïgrai Bharamut. While he was found non-guilty on treason, the bad press brought by the trial and his condemnation for corruption while in office led to his destitution by the Yedviro Party which ultimately took away his card. He returned to politics in 2015 as an Independent, running for the Mayorship of his birthplace. His successful comeback and rekindled popularity has allowed him to rejoin Yedviro, ultimately returning to the position of President with the mission of winning the 2024 General Elections.

Early Life

Simon Smeleres was born on the 18th of August 1947 at the St-Jon Bazimilion Hospital in Petrograve to [Mirkulash Smeleres]] and Smeleres, born Philaioui. The Smeleres are a cadet branch of the wider Siranko family and arrived in Hetmoscar, the northernmost region of Drevstran on the border with Arazija, when the formation of the Triple-Crown when garrison towns were created on the border due to the risk of troubles from Ludvosiya spilling over. His grandfather, David Smeleres had been Magistrate of Petrograve and supported Prince Farza of Kaposlovar and his Golden Columns during the Drevstranese Civil War before serving as Deputy of Hetmoscar in the First Republic. His father Mirkulash inherited his father' position within the upper society of Petrograve. But the Smeleres would end up drawing the ire of Vernesto Skolad. David and his children, including Mirkulash, were arrested and imprisoned. David Smeleres would die in jail in 1949. Mirkulash and the rest of the family would only be freed in 1953 after the Black Streets Days and the creation of the Second Republic. He would be one of Nepserot first adherent in the north and represent the party in his region.

His maternal grandfather, Maridates Philaioui, had moved from Mesogeia to Drevstran as a representative for his family' diamond, gemstone, and jewelries trade. He possibly chose to settle permanently in Angrast due to his Aletheic faith which has often been victim of persecutions in Mesogeia. In the end, he became a fixture of the capital' upper society. His daughter, Smeleres, would meet Mirkulash Smeleres during a reception and the two married in 1946, 10 months before their first son birth. Amaryllis was arrested alongside her husband but was allowed to return in house arrest to take care of their underaged child.

In 1965, Simon Smeleres integrated the prestigious Saint Julian University in Angrast, in its Legal Studies Cursus. At 23 years old, in 1970, he passed his bar examination and became an associated lawyer at Mount-Peregrin Legal Counseling back in Petrograve, a firm partly owned by one of Mirkulash known friend. He served as a lawyer until 1976, when events would precipitate his political career.

Political ascension

Deputation

The electoral failures of 1974 pushed Nepserot' inner divisions to the forefront, notably the critics against Sargaï Bharamut turned into outright hostility. In the end, the party split up in three, with Priatselvo and Baratsag parties going their own way before merging, alongside other fringe political forces, into a new party in 1976: Yedviro.

Simon Smeleres had followed the dissidents and joined Priatselvo and ultimately took his card at Yedviro. The relative lack of manpower allowed Simon to gain the support of the party as he ran for the Mayorship of Petrograve, where he remained a local figurehead of the Party from 1980 to 1990.