Hunger Games

Hunger Games logo

The **Hunger Games Simulator**, officially abbreviated as **HG**, is a minigame hosted on Brazilian's Mapping Chat by Complex. It was created on April 17th, 2019 and it is only open for active people in the server.

## History

### Origins (December 2018-April 2019)

The first Hunger Games that took place in BMC was hosted by Brazilian on December 8th, 2018 after some previous attemps to host one. On April 17th, 2019 Complex brought back the idea of hosting the game on a weekly basis and giving the winner a prize, which was the HG Weekly Winner role.

### Rise (April 2019-September 2019)

After the first HG hosted by Complex, the popularity of the game rised up immediately, with more unofficial games hosted the following days. The game made the sever more active as it was very fun to watch.

On August 3rd, 2019 custom events were added to the game. During the Activity Crusade on the same day, a special HG took place with 36 members, instead of the normal 24 ones. One day later a voting happened to choose the amount of members in the game, with 24 members winning by a landslide.

### Peak (September 2019-January 2021)

Even though HG's popularity was huge and fun. It was very tedious to make. Thus Complex went on searching a new way to make the game, on September 13th, 2019 SpikeyBot was added to the server as it had HG simulator as a feature. This new simulation supposed an evolution to the traditional one. Much faster and easier, it could ping the selected members to make the districts or you could use the website to select the members and randomly choose the districts, it also gave the option to add unlimited members (maximum amount of people in the server). The events option was sadly removed, but the option to revive members and live battles appeared.

On June 29th, 2020 a special HG took place to celebrate the server achieving 600 members. Everyone (including bots) participated inn this massive game. The winner was actually an alt of Aimless.

#### Downfall

Though this was the golden age of Hunger Games, it slowly began to decrase as the problem of hosting it every week appeared. There were no other hosts other than Complex, who most of the time was just lazy to host it or he just keep forgetting. Before the games were usually hosted every week or two, with some exceptions. Until most of the time the games were hosted with weeks or even months of distance. This problem continued until the new age of HG.

## Rules

The Hunger Games is a pretty easy game to host, you only need to know some rules.

-A total of 3 games shall be hosted. The simulator used has changed over the years:

1. Hand-made simulator: The host had to create every district in the Hunger Games page one by one, adding the pictures of every member and their black and white deceased ones before starting.
2. SpikeyBot: It was a discord bot that featured a HG simulator, much easier than doing it hand-made, where you only need to ping the selected members to create the districts or do it manually on their website. SpikeyBot died on January 1st, 2021.
3. Loritta: Another discord bot that features the game. It is the one used currently, a bit faster than Spikey. You only need to ping the selected members and the districts will be done randomly.

-Because of the simulator, only 24 members can play the game. Recently, this has changed to only the 24 activest members in the server (people who left don't count).

-After the 3 games are hosted. The host shall get all the results into a spreadsheet, where each member's result is obtained by calculating the average of the games. If the result is a decimal number, it will get rounded.

-Only a member can get the role if they've won at least 1 of the 3 games.

-When the results are filled, there are some members will get different colors depending on their results.

* Green denotes the winner, who won at least one game and got the lowest average among the 3 possible winners.
* Yellow denotes the other 2 winners who's average wasn't enough to win.
* Blue denotes members who got the lowest average but didn't win any game. Blue members are above the winner's average.

-When the spreadsheet is done. The host shall publish the results on #the-veneto-times Discord channel.

## Editions

### I Edition

 Date
 Host Country
 Number of participants

The first edition had a total of 24 members and it was hosted by Brazilian.