50th Hunger Games

"*He reads from the square of paper in the same onerous voice he used for ours, informing Panem that in honor of the Quarter Quell, there will be twice the number of tributes.*"
―The 50th Hunger Games twist announcement**The 50th Hunger Games** was the year of the second Quarter Quell. Before the Games began, Coriolanus Snow stated that as a reminder that two rebels allegedly died for every Capitol citizen, twice the number of regular tributes were to be sent as tribute: two girls and two boys per district, giving a total of 48 tributes. The Games were won by District 12's Haymitch Abernathy, who went on to mentor the tributes from his district, including Katniss Everdeen.

## Before the Games

The tributes from District 12 wore the traditional unappealing coal miner outfits during the tribute parade.

This year, Caesar Flickerman had dark green hair and a night blue sparkling outfit. When he asked Haymitch about his thoughts on there being 100% more tributes as usual, Haymitch said that he wasn't too worried about it because they'd still be 100% as stupid as usual.

## The Games

### Beginnings

The Games started off with a Bloodbath at the Cornucopia in which 18 of the 48 tributes were killed, a record unbeaten. However, these Games did not have the highest ratio of dead-to-alive-tributes after the Bloodbath. Most of the tributes stood in wonder at the beautiful arena before running towards the Cornucopia, which gave Haymitch Abernathy an advantage, as he ran straight as the gong went off. One tribute from District 1 died, one tribute from District 4 died, two tributes from District 5 died, three tributes from District 6 died, two tributes from District 7 died, one tribute from District 8 died, three tributes from District 9 died, two tributes from District 10 died, one tribute from District 11 died, and two tributes from District 12 died.

Gamemaker traps designed by Priscus Piso for these Games included poisonous food, water, plants, mutations and a volcano disguised as a mountain, which killed 12 tributes on the fourth day, including half of the remaining Career pack. All of the food and water in the arena was beautiful, but it was deeply toxic and killed many tributes. The only ways to get water was through rain and the only ways to get food were through feasts and sponsors.

### Alliance

Later on, Haymitch ran into three tributes of the 1-2-4 Pack. He killed two of them while the third disarmed him. The last Career tribute tried to slit his throat, but Haymitch was saved by Maysilee Donner, who shot the Career with a poisonous blowgun. He formed an alliance with her and survived while stealing packs from dead tributes. Later on, Maysilee broke off the alliance when Haymitch refused to go back after reaching the end of the arena. He kicked a pebble into the force field, surprised to see it bounce back. Curious, he threw a larger rock into the force field, which also returned. He laughed at this, having found a way to take advantage of the Games.

Shortly after Maysilee broke up the alliance, she was attacked by candy-floss colored pink bird muttations with skewer-like beaks. Upon hearing her cries, Haymitch ran to her, but by the time he got there, Maysilee had been skewered through the throat. Haymitch held her hand as she died, and when Katniss Everdeen saw this, she was reminded of Rue Brownlow and how she had been too late to save her.

### Finale

As the Games progressed, one of the last tributes (the girl from District 7) was killed by fluffy golden squirrels, and the other tribute was killed in combat (the boy from District 5). Later, Haymitch was wounded by the final tribute, Velvet of District 1. She nearly killed him by disemboweling him, giving him a severe wound that caused him to hold his intestines in and drag himself away from her. She previously lost an eye, requiring that she held one hand on her empty eye socket to try to stop the blood flow, and holding an axe in the other, intending to deliver his deathblow. Haymitch defeated her when she threw the axe at him and he collapsed, causing it to rebound off the force field at the edge of the arena and fly back at her, lodging itself in her head and killing her.

Within a matter of minutes, Haymitch remained the only living tribute left and became the victor. The Gamemakers did not anticipate that a tribute would think to use the force field as a weapon, and Haymitch clearly outsmarted them. Two weeks after the Games, Haymitch's mother, younger brother, and his girlfriend were all killed by the Capitol because of the stunt he pulled with the force field.

The murders were part of the reason why Haymitch started drinking, along with haunting memories of his Games, plus helplessly watching the tributes he mentors alone die along with the others each year.

## Placement

### Kill Count

* Velvet: **10**
* Jupiter: **6**
* Haymitch Abernathy: **4**
* Florian: **4**
* Silvia: **3**
* Togeval: **2**
* Maysilee Donner: **1**
* **Other tributes: 2**
* **Tributes killed by natural causes: 15**

## Known muttations

* Fluffy, golden, carnivorous squirrels.
* Poisonous stinging butterflies.
* Candy-pink birds with skewer shaped beaks.

## Arena

The arena was described as "the most breathtaking place imaginable." The Cornucopia sat in the middle of a sweet-smelling green meadow, and the sky was azure blue, with fluffy, billowing white clouds. The meadow stretched for miles, and far in the distance there were woods on one side, and a snow-capped mountain on the other, which four days later turned out to be a volcano that killed most of the Career Pack. Everything in the arena was lethally poisonous, including the food growing in the arena, the water in the stream, the butterfly stings, and even the scent of the flowers when inhaled too directly. The only sources of safe food and water in the arena were the rainwater and the food from the Cornucopia.