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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 at its top.
Highschool and College level Pitz is also extremely popular in the Mutul.
History
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 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.
Highschool Pitz
The Mutul' 6144 secondary schools, be they part of the Chok Nahob or Nawob cursus, 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 Youth Ball, is consistently in the Mutul' top 5 Most Watched sport event of the year.