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Additionally, this Hunger Games was the first to introduce a sponsorship program, where mentors could provide food and water to tributes who had received bets from viewers.

Many tributes and their mentors were killed before the games officially began, following an explosion in the Capitol and prior to the bombing, a tribute was executed after killing their mentor. Head Gamemaker Volumnia Gaul deleted all but the master copy of the recordings due to the games making the Capitol look weak. The 11th Hunger Games was won by Mags of District 4.

It is said that Mags had the ability to construct baskets so tightly woven that even water couldn't seep through. This, along with her ability to make a fishhook out of seemingly nothing, most likely contributed to her victory.

After the failure of the 10th Games, many innovations were brought into place in the 11th Games, mostly at the behest of Coriolanus Snow, including the Victors' Village. Dr Gaul continued to serve as Head Gamemaker. This is likely the point where the games exploded into popularity and propaganda success as opposed to the low attendance and lack of interest shown to the first 10 Games.

The 25th Hunger Games was the first Quarter Quell in the history of the Games, and each district had to elect its own tributes as per the Quarter Quell rules written for the 25th Games. The victor of these Games wasn't alive when the third Quarter Quell started, though Mags and Woof were both older than the said victor. The 38th Hunger Games included Porter Millicent Tripp of District 5 who won the Games despite sustaining a broken neck in the final showdown of the Games.

The 45th Hunger Games included Chaff of District It ended with Chaff being victorious, though losing his left arm from the elbow and below in the process. He refused to get a prosthetic replacement from the Capitol. Being a Quarter Quell, a special amended rule was enforced. Each district would be required to reap two eligible girls and two eligible boys as tribute into the Games. This was to be a reminder that, allegedly, for every one Capitol death, the Districts lost two during the first rebellion.

Maysilee and Haymitch made an alliance to help each other survive. This lasted until five tributes were remaining. Shortly after parting ways, Maysilee was killed by candy pink bird muttations with spear-like bills, placing her fifth and leaving four tributes left.

Then a tribute was eaten by carnivorous squirrel mutts, the next was killed in combat by the District 1 girl tribute. This left Haymitch and the District 1 girl for the finale. Haymitch, though badly injured and literally holding his innards inside his stomach, managed victory by using the arena's forcefield to deflect a thrown axe from the Career girl which rebounded killing her, leaving Haymitch as the Victor.

The Capitol leaders and Gamemakers thought Haymitch made them look foolish with this stunt and deprived their audience a proper finale, and promptly had his family and his girlfriend killed as a result.

Enobaria of District 2 won the 62nd Hunger Games , killing one of her former allies from the Career Pack by ripping open their throat with her teeth. This later became what Enobaria was best known for. She was encouraged to surgically alter her teeth, so they now end in points and are coated in gold, making them a flashy and deadly weapon. Gloss of District 1 was the victor of the 63rd Hunger Games. Being from a Career District, it can be assumed that Gloss was in an alliance with the other Career tributes.

Gloss and Cashmere were the victors of the 63rd and 64th Hunger Games, respectively. Cashmere of District 1 was the victor of the 64th Hunger Games. It can be assumed that Cashmere was in a Career Alliance. Her brother, Gloss, won the previous Games. Finnick Odair won the 65th Hunger Games due to his proficiency with weapons, being from District 4 and therefore a Career Tribute, as well as his good looks that helped him acquire sponsors.

He received a trident from sponsors, which Katniss believes is one of the most expensive gifts ever given during the Games. Being from the fishing district, he was skilled with the weapon and used handwoven nets to capture tributes and then stab them with his trident. The victor of these Games is unknown. Also, Katniss mentioned in The Hunger Games that she remembered an edition from "a few years ago" in which the victor only received a 3 as his training score.

Considering that "few" typically means "three to five," Katniss was referring to the victor of the 69th Hunger Games as the two subsequent victors, Annie Cresta and Johanna Mason, are female. Annie Cresta of District 4 won the 70th Hunger Games. Ubisoft's first-person shooter battle royale game Hyper Scape offers a different wrinkle than most titles of its ilk. Rather than only featuring a map that shrinks as time progresses, certain strategic vectors from the map randomly disappear during critical missions.

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Sign me up! All about The Hunger Games Katniss is independent. She's a bit abrasive. And she's less interested in love. There's also the world that Collins has created. In the Games, girls are as feared as boys and keep up with them both physically and mentally. Katniss is one of the most fearsome and tactical tributes. But she isn't the only strong female competitor. Johanna Mason Jena Malone in the films , a major character in the second and third books, wins her games because people think she's weak and keep her around.

Enobaria, a past victor, ripped someone's throat out with her teeth to win the games — a move that's as ruthless as the book describes. And there are other female champions like Mags and Wiress, who managed to win the Games in unconventional ways. Women and girls in the Games are pillars of strength, symbols of hope. They are independent. They're not necessarily perfect — even Katniss is flawed — but they're quite an improvement from many of the works they followed.

In her books, Collins focuses on food as a symbol of wealth and inequality. Katniss and others who live in the outer Districts starve, while the Capitol has an abundance of food. The contrast between these different situations constantly appears in the first two books and is part of the series' political allegory.

The relationship people have with food bleeds into the actual Games. Collins points out that the tributes from districts closer to the Capitol, who are used to plenty of food, have a tough time in the Games, because of the general lack of it throughout the competition.

Some past winners win solely because they know how to find food, while others have lost because they ate the wrong thing, like poison berries.

Peeta, pronounced like the pocket of bread that you fill with hummus and falafel, is a boy from District 12 who goes into the Hunger Games with Katniss. He's a baker. As you can imagine, a baker isn't the kind of person who would be good in a last-man-standing competition. Collins has never explicitly explained why the characters in her books are named the way they are.

But that hasn't stopped people from coming up with theories. The best theory out there belongs to Slate's Miriam Krule :. Characters from the poor, depleted districts are named after plants or other earthy items; those from the regal capital have a Roman influence … The Roman-themed names play on Collins' critique of imperialism — the nation of Panem gets its name from panem et circenses , or "bread and circuses" — while the plant names highlight the natural goodness of the books' heroes.

The names are also part of Collins's world-building. In the world of Panem, gems and precious stones come from District 1. Betee and Wiress are from District 3, a district that excels in technology, so their names reflect that. There's also some phonetics at work. Cinna, Katniss's stylist, sounds like the word "sinner," which is how he's viewed in the eyes of the Capitol.

And Peeta sounds like pita, which makes sense considering his profession. Victors get to live and retire in a village. That might sound great — and certainly an improvement over near certain death. But there are some drawbacks. Collins makes clear that a life of a victor is damaged.

Finnick O'dair, a good-looking victor introduced in the second and third books, became tangled in a life of prostitution after the Games, for instance. If a victor is considered desirable, the president gives them as a reward or allows people to buy them for an exorbitant amount of money.

If you refuse, he kills someone you love. So you do it," he says in Mockingjay.