*SYOT* This is my first HG and I have a whole plan sorted. I don't need anymore tributes as they are all filled up.
"Hello, and welcome to the 125th annual Hunger Games," boomed the egotistical maniac, also known as the President of Panem, "and may the odds be ever in your favour!"
125 years ago, there was an uprising in what used to be known as America. 13 districts fought against the Capitol, but when District 13 was apparently destroyed, all hope was lost and the Capitol won. To punish the districts for the uprising, the Capitol created a competition for children aged between 12 and 18. 1 boy and 1 girl, from the twelve districts, would be chosen to take part in a brutal competition known as the Hunger Games. They would learn the ways of survival and then they would enter a well-designed arena where they will fight to the death. These arenas can be anything, from a hot and barren wasteland, to an ocean with not a single piece of land for miles. The rules: kill or be killed. It's as simple as that.
This year, however, is a special year because this specific Hunger Games is a Quarter Quell. A Quarter Quell takes place every 25 years and this gives game-makers a chance to spruce things up in the competition. Each year, the Head Game-maker will pick a slip out of a bowl and on that slip will decide the Quarter Quell for that year.
Past Quarter Quells have included:
1st) The citizens of each district get to vote who goes into the arena, instead of getting reaped.
2nd) Twice as many tributes were chosen to go into the arena
3rd) Past victors would be chosen to go back into the arena
4th) Each tribute would have a chip put into their body. In the arena, every 12 hours, one tribute's chip would detonate, killing the tribute.
"For this year's Quarter Quell," echoed the President over the hushed crowd of Capitolites, "there will be an island for each district located around the Cornucopia. Each tribute pair will be designated to their own district island and will have supplies suited to their district. If either of the tribute pair should die, the island will sink into deadly Quicksand. There will be paths leading to each island and to the Cornucopia. One tribute will go to the Cornucopia, while the other goes to the island. That will be all."