District 1- Gage Richardson: Victor of the 43rd Hunger Games
Physically impressive. Mentally capable. Linguistically eloquent. All of these qualities made a great impression on the Capitol. But what really cinched Gage's victory was his skill with a mace, which left many impressions on the bodies of his victims.
District 2- Castilla Fiorre: Victor of the 67th Hunger Games
During her interview, Castilla promised Caesar that, simply for theatrical appeal, all of her kills would be made with her most recent victim's weapon. Caesar chuckled and wished her an off-handed, "Good luck with that, my dear!" as her three minutes ended and she stepped off the stage. The Capitol scoffed at her, calling her training score of 7 into question. They knew she would never complete her task.
But Castilla never broke promises, and she didn't plan on starting now. Her first kill was made with a spear she grabbed from the Cornucopia. Her second was with a small knife. Her third was with a walking stick.
By the time she was up to five kills, the citizens of the Capitol were convinced she would win as well. The only reason they continued to watch was to see what she would make her next kill with.
The final two came down to Castilla and the boy from 1. He had a broadsword that he had already slain two tributes with. She had her bare hands.
So you can imagine that all the Capitol's glove and mitten companies were competing fiercely for Castilla to endorse their products when she was airlifted out of the arena.
District 3- Frank Smith: Victor of the 33rd Hunger Games
Everyone forgot about Frank Smith. Maybe it was his name: unoriginal. Maybe it was his training score of 3: mediocre. Even his interview, where he said his strategy was to, "Just take a long walk," was uninspiring. No sponsors, no bets for him to win, and no hope for either his mentor or his family.
When the gong sounded and the bloodbath began, Frank walked straight through the carnage and gore, picked up a sack of apples, and continued walking without even so much as a pause.
The first day in the arena, Frank ate one apple as he explored the abandoned cityscape that made up the arena. He walked through the streets, never pausing to go into any of the buildings, as he could clearly see that they were all booby-trapped by the Gamemakers. Meanwhile, his fellow tributes had discovered that the only food in the arena was at the Cornucopia, in the protection of the Careers.
Each ensuing day, Frank would eat one apple. He continued walking, never running into any tributes, or cameras for that matter. The camera crews were too busy focusing on the hungry tributes that were beginning to team up in an effort to get food from the Cornucopia.
On the fifth day, the remaining hungry tributes threw themselves at the Career camp in a relentless attack in a futile attempt to get food. In the end, one Career was left moaning on the ground, slowly bleeding out from his massive leg wound.
On the sixth day, Frank ate his last apple as he reached the Cornucopia, and the pale body of the last tribute. He stopped at the sound of a cannon; he had been counting them, and he knew that the twenty-third cannon meant he had won.
He chuckled to himself as the trumpets blared. No one would forget his victory.
District 4- Nelson Tate: Victor of the 52nd Hunger Games
The minute that the Capitol's citizens saw that the arena was a desert-like wilderness, they stopped betting on District 4 to win. "No water, no way!" was the slogan chanted at anyone who thought District 4 still stood a chance. For a while it seemed like the naysayers were right, as the girl from District 4 became the first tribute to die outside of the bloodbath, by a desert scorpion's sting, no less.
But Nelson Tate didn't need water to win. Nelson Tate killed his sleeping Career teammates after they foolishly put him on guard duty in the night. Nelson Tate got a sturdy spear sent to him by his mentor, using up all of his sponsor money. Nelson Tate trudged through the sand and speared seven tributes over a span of three days, winning the Games thriftily.
Needless to say, "No water, no way!" never caught on after the Games ended.