39th Games

This year's games featured what is often considered to be one of the most intelligent tributes in the history of the entire games.

This year's victor was Beetee Latier, age 15, from District 3. The arena was set in a foggy marshland, featured venomous herons, an immunity pill chase and lasted for 7 days.

Beetee grabbed a sleeping bag from the cornucopia and then walked to the outskirts of the arena over the next few days. he found Salvador and Maria (both 10) and followed them. After only being able to eat berries from the bushes, Beetee was hungry and wanted to eat some meat, however he noticed that Salvador and Maria were both ill after eating one of the herons without cooking it, therefore he decided to stick with the berries.

Beetee was going to try and start a fire that could be used to cook a heron properly, but there was a constant drizzle of rain entering the arena, which made the ground and plants wet. However whilst looking at the herons moving about in the lake one night, he realized that there must be a way that the game-makers were somehow tracking them, as it appeared that this was the case in previous games and so if he could extract these trackers, then he could potentially start a fire.

After using a tree branch to kill a heron, Beetee plucked it of its feathers and searched all over its dead carcass until he eventually found a small tracker in its neck. He killed two more herons and found their trackers as well. Once in a relatively dry area of the arena, he took off the casing of these trackers and very carefully reconnected the batteries of each of the trackers to one of the tracker's main transmitters. As he predicted, this started a small fire due to the overloading current. He continued adding more sticks and wood to the fire, which allowed it to burn more and more and this allowed him to cook herons and finally eat something more nutritious than just the berries.

That night, Beetee was approached by his district partner, Mobile. She was on the verge of starvation and begged Beetee for some of the cooked heron in return for anything she had. He noticed that she had not just waters but also a long wire that she had salvaged from the cornucopia and therefore he accepted.

The next morning, Beetee hatched a plan for them to try and electrocute the career pack. They walked to near the cornucopia, where they could just about make out the careers through the thick fog. They hatched a plan for Mobile to distract the careers, so that Beetee could place the wire leading into the cornucopia, Mobile walked around to the other side of the clearing and then she started shouting. Beetee saw that the career pack were intrigued by the shouting, but they didn't move to investigate what the shouting was, correctly guessing that it was probably a trap.

Beetee was unsure of how to act after this glitch in the plan, but shortly after this, he heard some loud sexual moaning coming from where Mobile was. The careers were as stunned and confused as Beetee was, but whilst they were discussing these noises and even seemed amused by them, Beetee took his chance and ran through the fog towards the career pack, before he placed the wire about ten meters from where they were stood laughing. he was lucky that they were talking so loudly, as squelching of the puddles under his feet was causing a lot of noise.

After placing the wire in position to electrocute the careers, Beetee ran out of the clearing and placed the other end of the wire just outside of this clearing. Luckily for him, it was hidden by the fog, but shortly after this he heard Mobile's cannon, later finding out that Derrick (12) had heard her loud noises and killed her. Beetee continued walking away from the cornucopia and rested for that night.

With ten tributes left on the seventh day, it was announced that a flesh-eating virus would be released into the cornucopia in an hour and that the only way to receive immunity and avoid being infected would be to take one of the pills that would be placed in the cornucopia, one hour after this announcement.

Beetee realized that he may not be able to kill more tributes than just the careers, so he quickly killed another heron, before taking the tracker from its neck. Just before the pills were due to appear, he made it back to the spot where the wire led from the cornucopia clearing. He managed to turn off the tracker and attach its battery to the wire and then waited for the pills to appear and the tributes to enter the clearing.

As soon as the pills did appear, several tributes ran towards them. They were heavily guarded by the career pack and this of course led to lots of the other tributes' deaths. After a while, Beetee noticed that all the remaining tributes ad either died in the clearing or were defending or trying to grab the pills from the clearing. He seized his opportunity and turned on the tracker and its battery started up.

Within seconds, Beetee was violently thrown backwards after receiving a sharp electric shock, but whilst starting to come to his senses, he heard six canons go off in a row. Just as he was starting to work out how many tributes would now be remaining, the game-makers announced that he was this year's victor, before he passed out again, this time in shock.

After the games, Beetee returned to District 3 and worked as a telecommunications expert for The Capitol, before fighting in the 75th Hunger Games and being abducted by rebel forces. However he later escaped and returned to The Capitol in '86