Hello, this is a SYOT - Submit Your Own Tribute. I am having a clean-up of it, to make it quicker and easier to read. I have filled up all the spots. But for those who haven't submitted their own tribute you can still read it and enjoy. I switch POVs from the tributes. I really hope you like it and you can always join my evil Gamemaker crew whom I write chapters about, but that's only for members due to need of secrecy of scheming via PMs.

If you were wanting a regular story rather than a SYOT then I suggest you read mine called 'Gnawing Hunger'. But please enjoy this, it shouldn't take too long to read, it's mostly annoying A/Ns from me which I am cleaning up and I can hopefully guarnantee you'll enjoy it. I still update my other stories frequently so I would go and read them if you wanted. I'll give a brief plot synopsis for this so far and you can use the brief tribute character description if you want to skip the reapings and the interviews and want to go straight into the lion's mouth - the games themselves.

SYOT : Kill or be Killed -

Twenty four tributes, one victor. Who will win? Who will die? This is the struggle of twenty-four children from the ages of twelve to eighteen who have either been selected or volunteered to take part in this fight to the death. But this year in the 153rd Hunger games we have a special games, a very special games indeed.

Dull. Dull, dull, dull. You think being a Gamemaker is fun? You have another thing coming. I look at the list of names in front of me and hiss through my teeth. How am I meant to know what to give these stupid tributes as training scores. I glance at each one in turn, mulling each one's strengths and weaknesses systematically over in my head.

First of all there's Tour Solier. Tour is the joker of the pack, but he offended Destiny's best friend and now Destiny is out to get him. I think it was something back home when they were both back in district one, it was a bad encounter, that's all I'm enabled to disclose at the current time. In other words, that's all I've been tod. but someone higher up than me would know, just I'm a lowly Gamemaker so no-one will tell me. These tributes just have it too easy.

Onto Destiny, Destiny Bond . After her parents died in a fire that destroyed both her house and her heart Destiny has been living in an orphanage, training for the hunger games so she won't have to live on the streets. She's got a best friend that she's trying to protect. Guess who won't give me her best friend's name? You got it. The higher ranking Gamemakers. I sigh and turn to the next one.

Shale Overheart. Shale shouldn't be here. Simple as. He belongs at home helping his family out but for once the volunteering ceased and Shale was reaped. It's going to be tough for him fighting this one out, he is from district two after all. But maybe he could use that to his advantage; maybe he could get into the careers and swing it from there? Or maybe not. i'll just have to wait until someone with "higer ranking" can be bothered to tell me what's going on.

Now here's the big one - Twira Hearthright. Coming from a family of victors Twira is ruthless and will stop at nothing to get what she wants, which is winning the hunger games. Shame, some other tributes really would have been nice to have around as victors, ah well. Twira's almost certainly going to win, simple as. She's the strongest contestant by far.

Onto Cole Dallan. Cole is your average guy, but then he was reaped and he realized he had to win to get back home with his family. Unfortunately he has a loony for a district partner, but I'll move onto her later. I haven't been given much information on Cole. You know why, no need to expand.

This is the loony I was talking about, one girl who goes by the name of Quazza Willowwhisper. She got reaped alongside Cole, the boy she has had a crush on for the past few years, but I don't think that will stop her getting home, though it will be a hinderance. I suppose the audience will like it; the ones who actually like that kind of thing.

Then there's Roderick Giffords. After Rod's elder brother was killed in the hunger games by a district seven Rod has sworn to conquer the games and god help any district seven that gets in his way, I see him being quite a pain for them. He's a career, I'll give him that. The careers aren't anything special this year. Dull, predictable. I think that's about as far as it goes with them really.

Then there's out last career, Lainey Rain. Lainey's parents are divorced, which might help her out with some sympathetic sponsors maybe, and Lainey finds herself being shipped about. I think she has had enough of being pushed around though. Her friend got reaped she volunteered to steal the glory. I have to admit, that girl has class. I don't think her so-called friend was very pleased about it though.

Now we're off the careers and onto the bloodbaths, Arcturus or "Arc" Starre is always hyper and has ADHD and is bi-polar at the same time, so I think that the lack of medication in the arena will be a serious hinderance to him. Unfortunately one thing that is steady is his love for the stars. He is ready to do what it takes to go back home, or so the psychologist said, though you can't trust anything she says.

Onto the girl from five, a very interesting girl. Fenora Kensington is an ancestor of promptly nicknamed "foxface" from the seventy-fourth hunger games who reached the final three and she has more than a few tricks up her sleeve this time, or so she told her district partner on the train when we taped it. She also seems quite bossy and controlling and it looks like she and her district partner already might have formed an alliance, which certianly is interesting.

Now he have someone crazier than Quazza - Brink Freeman. He is wild and unpredictable, Brink has been playing crazy since his mother died and his father went deep into depression and decided to focus on work, but he has to pull out of that for the games when he saw a glimpse of the real self he has been hiding for so long. He looks ok, that is all I am saying. Nothing more, nothing less. Ok.

We have a real possible contender here, Reena Woodson. Reena has been practising with a bow and arrow since birth and always hits bullseye; she knows how to shoot but she will have to know how to survive to win. I don't know about her survival training, but it should come relativly simply to her. Well, maybe I would know more if I was allowed into the tribute's archives but no, I can't do that. I'm just too low!

Here's Axel Leaf. Axel is a supporter of the hunger games and when he gets reaped he realizes he might actually have a chance in the games, as have we. He actually looks quite strong, being from district seven, and maybe has a few more brain cells than expected. I think he has a chance, well, as much of a chance a non-career can have anyway.

Next is Lindsey Grey. After her parents were murdered Lindsey has grown up at her uncle's house with her brother, Graham and her uncle, Rememberance, but she is reaped and her world turns upside down once more. But she's used to it, she's used to adapting and looking after people and hiding her emotions. i think she'll be fine, make it a few days in at least before the careers start picking off everyone.

So then there is Robert Tars. Robert has grown up around a large family and has learnt to deal with things his way, help others if they'll help you too, but his way won't seem to work in the hunger games when it comes to allies. But he looks pretty good independantly, just maybe not someone you'd want to ally with unless he gets driven around the bend again. His mental state does seem pretty fragile.

I guess I'll have to mention Tess Carter now. Tess is unpopular and a geek so when she volunteers for her best friend it caused a bit of a stir of emotions but soon people will understand her reasons, well, not me maybe, but people. Or that's what the chief Gamemaker told me. honestly, what is his problem?

I better hurry onto Dallas Starconn and his two friends, Gina and George. They were absolutelty amazed when he volunteered for George, as was I, but soon he starts to regret his decision. Well, I would to you know. I wouldn't volunteer for anyone, not even my own mother. Especially not my own mother.

Then little twelve year-old Lusa Canvis may be shy but when she got reaped she suddenly became determined to come back home and decided that if she had to kill then so be it, or so the psychology expert said, I mean, what does she know? I was actually quite upset when she got reaped though, she looks too young to be going through all of this. but that's life, that's the hunger games. Anyway, the audience loves it.

Then we've got Mitchel Rye. Mitchel apparently gets teased by his two older brothers and when he got reaped he was angry at one of his brothers who didn't volunteer for him. I wouldn't expect my brother to volunteer for me at all, especially if he was taunting and bullying me like Mitchel's brothers were. Ah well, people work in strange ways. He's certain he's going to die but he might be wrong, but that's highly improbably since he's from district ten, the livestock district. Unless he comes across a mutant cow then I doubt he's going to be doing very well at all.

"Willow Grams has pretended all her life. She was pretending to be stupid and obsessed with fashion, pretending she didn't hold her family up, but when she got reaped she realised she didn't want to pretend any more." I sigh as I put down the next statement from the head Gamemakers. Really? that makes my job easier how? What about age, appearance, hobbies, weapons training? but no, they just give me a soppy life story. I grit my teeth angrily and hurriedly rush onto the next one.

"Nate Morgue just realised where he wanted to be - at Isabella's side, but then, before he could hear her reaction to the decleration of love her gave her, he was reaped and forced to enter the hunger games without the truth being known." These are sounding even more like a corny low budget romance film. true love? He's only fourteen for goodess sake, everything is so hammed up. He has a crush on a girl back home in district eleven, alright, move on. In fact I've given up on reading these out loud. I've only done two and that is enough for me. I'll just summarise from now on.

Thistle Clay was engaged to a boy called Whistle but he got murdered to cover up some sabotage with a machine in the factory he worked in, but Thistle heard him die over the phone and the sound has haunted her since. But now she's got to put the past behind her and try and win to get a new and better life, which could be hard according to the psychology expert who is really getting on my nerves at the moment.

Now onto the obvious bloodbaths, district twelve; Braxlin Coal has been bullied all his life and is the runt, but suddenly he finds himself reaped and instead of worrying about where the next meal will come from he starts worrying about where the next knife will come from. another cheesy line there, the whole "where the next knife" will come from milarky. Ok, he's used to pain. That's a positive. He's going to die. One big stamp of negativity.

Finally there's Match Lyte. Match has always dreamed of becoming a chef but living in the Seam has prevented her from it, what with there hardly being any food anywhere, when she got reaped she realised that if she survives she will be able to cook everything and anything, but she has to survive first which is going to be a slightly small problem since... she's in the hunger games!

I sigh, these tributes look pathetic. The only one with any promise is the girl from two, and I don't even like her. Ah well, I'll just have to grit my teeth and roll my eyes. Let the hunger games commence!

I hope you read it and have fun, now you can go straight into the games without reading before that if you want!

~SneverusSnapers