Past hunger games arenas

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. Both former victors were chosen for the 75th Hunger Games where they aligned with Katniss. While both assisted with Katniss' survival in the Quarter Quell, Wiress died during the event. He survived the event due to his various alliances and his skilled knife fighting.

In the end, it came down to Haymitch and the District 1 female tribute, but the latter accidentally killed herself by throwing an ax that bounced off of the force field, killing her. As the only living victor from District 12, Haymitch served as the mentor to Katniss and Peeta.

Finnick Odair won the 65th Hunger Games when he was just years-old, the youngest in history. As a male tribute from District 4, he was mentored by Mags. He was already skilled in fighting but the use of a trident in the arena led to his big win, as did the various gifts sent by sponsors.

Johanna Mason, a tribute from District 7, won the 71st Hunger Games. Since then, arenas with climates on the extremes of human survival hot, cold, wet, dry have generally had some trick to staying alive like the spile Katniss's group gets in her second Games to get water out of the trunks of the trees.

Katniss's first Games arena, by comparison, was a relatively normal stretch of land, very close to what she was used to dealing with every day while hunting.

The major survival problems were cold nights no problem for Kat and relatively sparse water slightly more of a problem; she nearly died of dehydration sickness before finding a pond. Haymitch's Quarter Quell, in the paradise arena, had as a "soft" border a ring of brush. Beyond that was a short distance of relatively bare ground, and then a cliff all around.

Haymitch won his Games first by travelling in one direction, straight as he could, until he reached the edge of the arena, and then learning that there was a force field off the end of the canyon that would throw you back in should you try to commit suicide by just leaping off the edge. In the final battle, he dodged an axe thrown by his opponent, which then came hurtling back into the arena off the force field, killing its thrower. The one for the Third Quarter Quell was very different; this Quarter Quell was a "tournament of champions" although officially nobody was supposed to know that until President Snow opened the envelope , and so the arena was specially designed to be both small to force the tributes together , and extra tricky to test their stamina.

In addition Plutarch Heavensbee, the Head Gamemaker, was in on the outer Districts' uprising, and thus on Katniss's group's escape from the arena. He designed the arena not only to have the predictable events that occur every hour, but to have the fatal weakness of providing enough power to the lightning tree to feed back into the force fields, overloading the entire arena's artificial systems. Finally, he put the spool of wire into the Cornucopia so that Beetee could spring the trap.

During the last Quarter Quell, while we don't know the specific shape per se, it's implied to be different; Katniss and Peeta don't recognize this arena from their tape viewings, and there was stated to be a drop at the edge where the force field was in place.

In fact, it's implied that no two arenas are the same, as they are maintained as tourist locations open to all for visiting yet each new arena is meant to be a total surprise to the contestants and viewers. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

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Register Don't have an account? View source. History Talk 9. This was originally an arena for various performances before the Dark Days, but fell into disrepair afterwards.

Tributes were simply thrown into the arena and left to fight. Since there was no cover, the Hunger Games tended to proceed quickly. Things changed in the 10th Hunger Games when a bombing of the arena opened up access to various tunnels, resulting in a number of new strategies.

The 73rd Hunger Games arena. This is shown in The Hunger Games film, with the arena being mainly a ruined city, having since fallen to pieces.

The victor was a boy who won by smashing a brick into the skull of another male tribute. The 74th Hunger Games ' arena was a large expanse of various terrains. In the center around the Cornucopia where the tributes launch was a plain of hard packed dirt. In one direction, there was a wheat field which was not visible from the Cornucopia, because there was a steep downward slope and this area was a lot lower down than the rest of the arena.

In another direction there was a large lake, next to which the Careers set up camp and used as their main source of water. In 74th Hunger Games arena as seen on the Gamemakers ' map. This wood contained a stream that lead to the lake, several ponds, a variety of different trees, a marshy area, and a rocky area with numerous caves that was next to the stream. Several muttations such as tracker jackers , mockingjays , and wolf muttations, in addition to natural animals such as rabbits, squirrels, deer, grosling, and water birds inhabited the arena.

The stream was evaporated by the high daytime temperatures, as Katniss later describes a flat expanse of dry mud as what used to be the stream.