Of course, these are never intended to provide an undue advantage, and tokens are strictly intended to be non-lethal.
There are references in the books and movies to previous Hunger Games tributes attempting to sneak in lethal substances via their keepsakes, though it can be assumed that the Gamemakers quickly dealt with them.
As previously stated, tributes may being official-sanctioned weapons and survival training when they reach the Capitol, though many of them will already have extensive experience in both by the time their names are drawn during the Reaping. Unfortunately, though, it can be assumed that born-and-bred tributes from districts successful in the Hunger Games have sparred against each other relentlessly, no two contestants are not allowed to fight against each other in private prior to their introduction to the arena.
That said, one of the very few strictly-stated rules is that there can only ever be one victor each year. This law was famously violated in the 74th Hunger Games by Katniss and Peeta, which set in motion a set of events that would forever change the country of Panem. The Hunger Games may be a relatively even playing field on the surface, but, like in all things, those with wealth tend to have an upper hand. Beneficiaries have the option to send food, weapons, and survival gear to contestants in the arena, the caveat being that, the longer the games go, the more expensive such support becomes.
While sending any sort of care package is comparatively inexpensive early on, the longer things go, the more expensive it becomes. Though sending medical supplies may be doable on the first day, a simple loaf of bread may become infeasible as the days wear on. By that logic, it would seems that those hailing from the more affluent districts might be able to prop up their tributes more effectively.
As was prominently featured in the first acts of both the first novel and movie in the Hunger Games series, tributes are, at the end of their training cycles, allotted an audience with the Gamemakers to display their skills. These powerful Hunger Games puppeteers then rank all 24 tributes on a scale between one and twelve — one being the lowest, and twelve being the highest — based on their likelihood to emerge victorious from the arena.
Both Katniss and Peeta were famously awarded the highest possible score during the lead up to the 74th Hunger Games, and it has been said that a tribute once won despite earning a score as low as a three. Similar to a real-world red carpet ceremony, each pair of tributes from all twelve districts are dressed ornately and paraded around before the Capitol in a faintly sinister display.
Each of the candidates flaunt their stuff and are later interviewed on national television. From here, audience members and Gamemakers alike begin to pick favorites, and the seeds of that year's Hunger Games are slowly sewn. The Hunger Games were a morbid and brutal competition which took place annually in the country of Panem , founded by Casca Highbottom and Crassus Snow as a school project. Every year, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 were selected from each of the twelve districts as tributes , who would train for a week and then were sent into an outdoor arena to fight to the death.
The event was nationally televised as mandatory viewing for all citizens. The last living tribute is declared the victor and is showered in gifts and lives the rest of their lives in luxury in Victor's Village. The winning district also receives parcels of food from the Capitol for a year. Seventy-five years before the 74th Hunger Games , the thirteen districts of Panem revolted against the Capitol.
Together, they stood strong, but when District 13 was supposedly obliterated by the Capitol, resistance became impossible, as District 13 was the driving force behind the rebellion. The remaining districts submitted to the Capitol and lost their hope for change. Every year since the rebellion, the Capitol forced 24 children into the arena and used hidden cameras to televise the events in order to both entertain the Capitol citizens and remind the twelve districts how they are completely at the Capitol's mercy.
Only one tribute can win the games, with the exception of the 74th Hunger Games, where Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark of District 12 both won because of their joint attempted suicide. Owing to its rebellious nature, the dual victory of Everdeen and Mellark in the 74th Games sparked widespread unrest, particularly the outlying districts of Panem such as District 8 and District The unrest grew into uprisings in various districts, which cumulated, after several months, into a full-scale rebellion.
Instead, the arena was destroyed by Katniss Everdeen, and following this, a few of the remaining tributes were rescued by District 13, thus beginning the Second Rebellion. After the invasion of the Capitol and the overthrow of Coriolanus Snow 's regime, the interim government discussed a potential 76th Hunger Games using Capitol children which was narrowly approved by the remaining Hunger Games victors.
Following an emergency presidential election, the Hunger Games were abolished permanently, with the destruction of arenas and their replacement by memorials taking place. Volumnia Gaul. During Highbottom and Snow's final days at the University , she served as a professor there and assigned her class a final project: to create a punishment for one's enemies so extreme that they would never be allowed forget how they had wronged them.
Being best friends, Highbottom and Snow paired together for the project. Highbottom, having a mind for puzzles, began brainstorming the Hunger Games, something which Snow assured him was just a private joke between the two of them. Highbottom, however, was drunk and Snow continued to ply him with alcohol, playing on his vanity as he fleshed out the project.
Snow then turned the project in to Dr. Gaul while Highbottom was sleeping off the alcohol, leaving Highbottom to awake horrified at what had happened and meaning to rip it to shreds. Gaul held on to the project and then, following the end of the war, pulled out the proposal and introduced Highbottom as the architect of the Games. Highbottom thought it would die out quickly, being so ghastly, but Dr.
Gaul took it and ran. Originally, the Hunger Games were primitive, and quite flawed. The tributes arrived to the Capitol in cattle cars, unlike in later installments where tributes were pampered.
Upon arrival to the Capitol, tributes were held in old stables, until the 10th Games where they were kept in the Capitol Zoo. Here, they were underfed and often mistreated by Peacekeepers. In the 10th Hunger Games , this led to several tributes dying before the Games had begun. The first ten installments of the Games were held in the Capitol Arena , an old stadium converted to a fighting arena.
Basic weapons were provided, however, food and other supplies were not. Tributes were left in the arena to kill one another, until a lone Victor remained. However, unlike later Games, the winners of the first ten games were not showered in riches and given a home in the Victors' Village.
They were simply returned to their home District and back to the life they formerly lived. Every year, each district holds a reaping ceremony "Lottery". Two large glass balls contain slips of paper with the names of each child through the ages of However, they can choose to add their name more times in exchange for tesserae , which is a small ration of oil and grain. Each tessera has enough oil and grain to supply one family member with food for one year and entries are cumulative from year to year.
The exception to this rule was the 25th Hunger Games , the First Quarter Quell , in which each District was forced to elect the male and female tributes that they would send to the Capitol.
Effie Trinket for District 12 picks a name out of the balls, one of which is for girls and one for boys. The tributes whose names are chosen are then entered into the Hunger Games, unless someone is willing to volunteer - a normally quite rare phenomenon unless it is in one of the " Career Districts " 1 , 2 , and 4 in the novel, 1 and 2 in the film , in which children have been training their whole lives at a special school to enter the Games.
The one exception to the traditional one boy, one girl per district, total of twenty four reaped tributes rule was the 50th Hunger Games , the Second Quarter Quell. In these games each District were required to double the amount of tributes and reap two girls and two boys for a total of 48 tributes to compete. Victors from previous Hunger Games are no longer eligible to be reaped or volunteer for subsequent games, even if they are still age eligible. The exception being the 75th Hunger Games , the Third Quarter Quell , in which the reaping of potential tributes was restricted to each district's pool of existing victors.
Each living victor from each district is given the task of mentoring the next tributes for the Games. Any living victor, mentor or not, is required to visit the Capitol to watch the Games, visit the residents , and make Capitol TV cameos, but the mentors come alongside their respective District tributes and to watch the Games live.
Mentors are very important as they give advice to their tributes, assist in the forming of alliances, politic for their tributes, secure sponsors , and control the sending of any gifts into the arena. A good clear minded mentor is imperative to the success of their tributes with very few exceptions.
Each tribute is allowed one token from their district, to represent and remind them of home, however, they must not be able to be used as weapons. They are very carefully examined and checked for any hidden advantages.
In the 74th Hunger Games, Glimmer , the female tribute from District 1, had her token, a ring, confiscated because it carried a hidden poisoned spike. Katniss' token was a golden pin given to her by Madge Undersee in the book and by her sister Primrose Katniss actually bought the pin in the Seam from Greasy Sae and gave to Prim for good luck originally before the 74th Games reaping in the movie, showing a Mockingjay in both the 74th and 75th Hunger Games.
In the Launch Room , prior to the 74th Games, Cinna states that it could hardly get past the review board, and that it was almost confiscated because some people believed that it could be used as a weapon.
The deadly competition was put in place by the Capitol following the end of the First Rebellion as a way to punish the 12 districts that form Panem. Aside from the movie series, the Hunger Games book series by Suzanne Collins has filled in the blanks when it came to the history of Panem's winners.
Each year, a male and female tribute between the ages of 12 and 18 were chosen from each district to participate in an annual Hunger Games event. They would then be forced into an arena to fight to the death. The lone survivor would go on to become the victor, acquiring a yearly income from the Capitol as well as a special status. Of course, the most famous victor was Katniss Everdeen , the central figure of the Hunger Games series, and the inspiration between the Second Rebellion.
Though 75 Hunger Games took place, only 74 were completed. That said, Katniss' first games featured a special circumstance, meaning there were 74 total victors before the games came to an end. Let's take a look at the known winner and how they won their respective event.
Years before District 12's Haymitch Abernathy won the games, year-old Lucy Gray Baird took the honor as the victor in the 10th annual event. Lucy Gray was mentored by Coriolanus Snow , the future president of Panem, which was the focus of the prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
The tribute hid for the duration of the games before poisoning the rest of the participators. The following year, another female tribute emerged as the winner. Mags Flanagan became the first victor from District 4, living off of nuts and her survival skills by creating fishhooks. During the 75th Hunger Games, Mags volunteered in place of Annie Cresta, but she passed away during the event from an acid fog. Beetee and Wiress were two victors from District 3.
Whereas Beetee won by building an electronic trap in the arena, Wiress' method of winning was unknown.
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