28th Games

In reversal of tradition, this year's strongest alliance was not that of the career districts, but instead belonged to the outlying districts. It is often thought that one of this outlying group could have won, if they were not in such a difficult arena.

This years victor was Cobalt Townsend, age 18, from district 1. The arena was set in a Bushy forest, featured deadly wild boars, a roaming wildfire, and lasted for 11 days.

During the bloodbath, the only careers to make it out alive were Cobalt and Lucifer (2), after Garnet (1) and Cassia (2) were beaten senseless by the very muscular Wisterion (11). Lucifer managed to shoot some of the outlying pack with arrows, but only Angelica (10) was killed by him here, whilst Cobalt grabbed some bread and water before the pair escaped.

Cobalt and Lucifer hid within the outskirts of the arena and killed wild boars for food. After several days, they skirted the perimeter and eventually found the outlying pack, who they decided to hide near. Inspired by the start of the previous year's games, they cut themselves and made a trail of their own blood which led to the outlying pack.

This plan succeeded in attracting wild boars, who savaged the outlying pack that night. The ongoing chaos also triggered an argument amongst this group, who turned on each other and left only Wisterion and Honeysuckle (both 11) to be alive.

The next morning, a fire roamed through the arena, obliterating anything in its way. Cobalt and Lucifer hid and witnessed tributes running from the fire. Therefore they started trapping tributes between themselves and the fire, which allowed them to kill more and more of the surviving tributes. after killing Sparx (3), and thereby getting the number of tributes down to four, Lucifer tackled Cobalt to the ground, but Cobalt eventually got the upper hand and stabbed Lucifer through the brain with an arrow.

When there were just three tributes left, the fire intensified and spread from the outside of the arena, making Cobalt, Honeysuckle, and Lumbra (7) sprint to the cornucopia for safety. Once they made it back, both Honeysuckle and Lumbra attacked Cobalt but he successfully fought them off by using his arrows to stab them, and he emerged victorious.

Upon returning to District 1, Cobalt became an arena designer at the District 1 Training Academy. He became notorious among potential tributes for including extremely harsh conditions in these arenas, but he always justified this by claiming that if they were reaped and lived to tell the tale, then they would thank him for this, a claim that was later proved to be correct.