Tribute

**Tributes** were residents of the 12 districts of Panem who were reaped or volunteered to participate in an annual Hunger games. Except in special cases, such as for Quarter Quells, twenty-four children between the ages of 12 and 18 were chosen at random to participate. Every district had to give two tributes, a girl and a boy. The circumstances could be different if it was a Quarter Quell, like the 50th Hunger Games. That year, each district had to send two boys and two girls to compete, thus providing a total of 48 tributes. A twist was also applied to the 25th Hunger Games, in which the districts had to pick their own tributes, instead of getting them chosen at random. In the 75th and final Hunger Games, the tributes were chosen, or "reaped", from the existing pool of victors. The chosen tributes fought to the death in an arena until only one remained; there are only two known exceptions to this: the 74th, which had two victors, and no victor in the 75th as the Games never finished, with 6 tributes surviving.

## Choosing the tributes

Each year, all children aged twelve to eighteen were separated into their respective age groups and designated to different areas. There were two glass balls, one for the boys and one for the girls, that contained slips of paper with the names of all the children of that district. The district's escortpicked a name out of each of the glass balls, and the two children whose names were chosen became the district's new tributes.

However, not everyone's chances of being reaped were equal; children who were twelve were entered once, thirteen-year-olds twice, and so on until they were eighteen with at least seven entries. A child's name could also be entered more times if they opted to receive tesserae. For each tessera taken by a child (with a maximum of however many people were in their family), their name was added an extra time in exchange for a year's supply of grain and oil for one person. However, these entries were cumulative, so all entries were rolled over to the next year. For example, Gale Hawthorne took tesserae for five family members since he was first entered into the reaping, and so had his name entered forty-two times by the 74th Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen had her name entered twenty times, while her twelve-year-old sister's name was entered only once.

### Volunteering

By rule, once a person's name had been chosen to become a tribute, another eligible boy or girl could volunteer to take their place. Normally volunteers were asked for after the chosen person is introduced, but Katniss Everdeen volunteered spontaneously before her sister Primrose Everdeencould mount the stage. This marked the first time in decades that a person had volunteered in District 12.

In districts 1, 2 and 4--in the films, only 1 and 2-- Career Tributes trained all their lives to participate in the Games so they could volunteer for a chance at fame and glory. As a result, the volunteering protocols were different there. However, in poorer districts like 12, participating in the Hunger Games was equivalent to a death sentence, so volunteering regulations were rarely used.

### Quarter Quells

Quarter Quells were special editions of Hunger Games that happened every quarter century, hence the name "Quarter Quell." Each Quarter Quell had a certain theme that would cruelly remind the districts of their failure at rebellion.

* In the first Quarter Quell, the tributes were not drawn randomly from the glass balls. Instead, they were voted into the Games by the people of their district to remind the rebels that they were sending their children to die in the war.
* In the second Quarter Quell, each district had to send two times the amount of tributes to remind the district residents that 2 rebels were killed for every Capitol citizen. These tributes were drawn randomly from the glass balls.
* In the third Quarter Quell, the tributes were chosen from the pool of remaining victors from past Hunger Games to remind the rebels that even the strongest among them could not defy the Capitol's power.

## Known tributes

### Tributes in the 10th Hunger Games

This is the first Hunger Games for which all twenty-four tributes have been named.

### Tributes in the 50th Hunger Games

Since twice as many tributes were sent into the arena for the second Quarter Quell, there were forty-eight tributes this year. However, only two are named, and four total are known:

* Unnamed District 1 female
* Haymitch Abernathy (victor, District 12)
* Maysilee Donner (District 12)
* Unnamed District 12 female

### Tributes in the 63th Hunger Games

This is the second Hunger Games for which all twenty-four tributes have been named.

### Tributes in the 74th Hunger Games

#### Volunteers

* Cato
* Any combination of Marvel, Glimmer, Clove, the unnamed District 4 female, and/or the unnamed District 4 male (presumed)
* Katniss Everdeen - volunteered in place of her sister, Prim

### Tributes in the 75th Hunger Games

Due to the twist of the third Quarter Quell, this would be each tribute's second time competing in the Hunger Games

#### Volunteers

* Brutus
* Mags Flanagan - volunteered for Annie Cresta
* Chaff (possible)
* Peeta Mellark - volunteered for Haymitch Abernathy

### Other Games

#### 70th Hunger Games

* Annie Cresta (District 4, victor)
* Unnamed District 4 male

#### 73rd Hunger Games

* Unnamed District 2 male (victor)
* District 3 male - named Prospero in an early draft of the script
* Unnamed District 10 male
* Unnamed District 12 male - referred to as Sage Blanken in an early draft
* Unnamed District 12 female

#### Victors' Games

This list only includes numbered Games for which the only known tributes are the victors. However, every victor has naturally been a tribute at one point, whether we know which year they won or not.

* 11th Hunger Games - Mags Flanagan
* 38th - Porter Millicent Tripp (District 5) - revealed in promotional material for the films
* 45th - Chaff
* 62nd - Enobaria
* 63rd - Gloss
* 64th - Cashmere
* 65th - Finnick Odair
* 67th - Augustus Braun (District 1) - promotional material
* 71st - Johanna Mason

#### Unknown Games

* Titus (District 6)
* Lyme (District 2, victor)
* Other third Quarter Quell tributes' prior Games