2nd Hunger Games

These are the 2nd Hunger Games, and the 32nd on the site. They were the second "Retro Games" on the site (ie. games that took place before our original 54th).

2nd Hunger Games

The map of the 2nd Hunger Games arena.
Theme	Colosseum
Victor	Samiyuq Hernández Huapaya
Length	2 OOC weeks
Reaping date	January 15th 2020
End date	February 2nd 2020
Gamemaker	Aya
Links	Information Tributes Arena Development
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Setting

After the 1st Annual Hunger Games had concluded, and a victor - Adder Ames - had been crowned, the Capitol set to work on building an arena specifically for the Games. Reapings were no longer random televised broadcasts but mandatory, organised events. The children in each district were assembled in front of the steps of the Justice Building, where the first public reapings took place. The Treaty of Treason was read aloud and the names of the tributes were read off of paper slips drawn from glass bowls. The short ceremony was performed by the district's Head Peacekeeper.

List of Tributes

This is a list of all the tributes that took part in the 2nd Hunger Games.

Place	Name	ID	Owner	Age	Killer
1st	Samiyuq Hernández Huapaya※	5m‡,1	WT	18	--
2nd	Persephone Vega	11f	Python	17	Samiyuq Hernández Huapaya
3rd	Antigone Boyé※	3f	Zori	15	Persephone Vega
4th	Maeve Idlewild	6f	Lalia	14	Persephone Vega
5th	Harley Sinclair※	4f	Kari	18	Samiyuq Hernández Huapaya
6th	Ram Tapsol	11m	Mattio	17	Persephone Vega
7th	Era Altyr※	8m	Shrimp	18	Samiyuq Hernández Huapaya
8th	Grover Oz※	9m	Cameron	17	Maeve Idlewild
9th	Anderson Maddox※	7m	Dars	15	Ram Tapsol
10th	Sigrun Vau※	2f	Cato	18	Harley Sinclair
11th	Jonas De Lange	4m	Tom	16	Samiyuq Hernández Huapaya
12th	Jett Davies	12m	Calla	14	Anderson Maddox
13th	Emmi Coulter	12f	Frankel	13	Sigrun Vau
14th	Axel Moreau※	1m	Kaitlin	18	Maeve Idlewild
15th	Aisha Aquino※	1f	Zoë	17	Jett Davies
16th	Tector Skirata	10m	Emsrocks	15	Sigrun Vau
17th	Catullus Brown	3m	Kire	18	Anderson Maddox
18th	Ajax Craine	2m	Lancelot	18	Aisha Aquino
19th	Avonlea Angevin※	10f	Marree	17	Jett Davies
20th	Dahlia Wolfsbane	9f	Celestials	17	Ram Tapsol
21st	Aurora Delphine	5f	Ryan	17	Dahlia Wolfsbane
22nd	Helena Crane	8f	Arrows	16	Jonas De Lange
23rd	Tarquin Athenian※	6m	Kaplan	18	Harley Sinclair
24th	Iris Oak※	7f	Puppy	18	Ajax Craine

^† Death due to inactivity / 24 hour rule / filler.
^‡ Tribute's gender does not match Reaping ID.
^※ Denotes a rebel tribute.

¹Samiyuq is nonbinary, and uses ze/hir pronouns

Arena

The 2nd Hunger Games took place in a colosseum built especially for the Games by the Capitol. A few elite Capitolites and 1st Victor Adder Ames sat in the stands, which were otherwise empty. Tributes were kept in cages until released into the arena. 24 gladiator swords were pierced into the ground.

The official arena description, written by Lalia, reads as follows:

The newly built colosseum hardly looks new at all. Constructed from reclaimed stone to give it a feeling of historic grandeur, rebel prisoners of war comprised the majority of the workforce, humiliating an already defeated populace. Teams of Capitol engineers and artists undertook more specialized tasks to ensure that the colosseum's vision was achieved — a structure that implies that the Games are not something new and controversial, but an ancient tradition resurrected.

From the tiered seating and presidential box far above to multiple levels of labyrinthine tunnels and dungeons below, the sunken arena is ringed by so much more than archways. This year the cushioned marble stands are occupied by peacekeepers in dress whites rather than riot gear, attending as spectators casually seated amongst a scattering of high ranking government officials. The familiar face of last year's Victor, Adder Ames, is unmistakable within the sea of uniforms. Everyone has taken a step back and expectation fills the air with faith in the tributes' will to live. This event no longer requires enforcement; it simply requires an audience.

The wooden floor of the arena is covered by the palest of sand. It quakes and shimmers as cage-like medieval holding cells rise up from underground and settle into place, tucked within the shadows of twenty-four evenly spaced archways. When the heavy iron gates imprisoning the tributes open, there is nothing more than a gladiatorial sword on the other side, its blade stuck into the ground — waiting for them. Both the swords and the spectators share an eagerness to witness this: The Second Annual Hunger Games.

Bloodbath

The entirety of the 2nd took place in a bloodbath-style battle royale in the Coliseum. Tributes were given a gladiator sword pierced into the ground, plus the option of hand-to-hand combat if they wished. Rebel tributes were aided with in-character knowledge of battle, thus the additional ooc station rules of Self-Defense, Hand-to-Hand Combat and Blades were granted to said tributes.

Notes

Trivia

• The first severed limb (arm at elbow) and leg (at calf) were rolled in the 2nd Games
• The 2nd Games' first instant kill was rolled by Ram Tapsol against Anderson Maddox. It was the first Stabbed in Neck insta in Games history.
• This was the first Games on the site that had no men in the top 4. It was also the first Games where the top 4 were all POC (people of color).
• This was the first games where the Games Engine successfully displayed non-ASCII characters in tributes' names.
• Samiyuq is the first nonbinary victor on the site, and the first victor to be shown speaking a language other than English.
• Persephone was the only tribute in these games to kill their district partner.
• The first district eliminated was District 10, and the last district with both tributes alive was District 11.
• Again, a tribute from District 2 was the first to make a kill.
• Antigone is one of the highest-placing tributes to have made no kills, tied with Joshua Rowan in the 56th.