27th Games

This year, it became very difficult for game-makers to retrieve some tributes' bodies due to the design fault in the cave rooves but this in return added an extra aspect to the games, greatly affected in outcome.

This year's victor was Farrell McCain, age 16, from District 4. The arena was set in Rocky caves, featured Flesh-eating beetles, a Cave collapse, and lasted for 8 days.

Within minutes of the games beginning, many tributes had cut themselves and were bleeding, after falling onto or brushing past the jagged rocks in the cornucopia cave.

Farrell and his district partner, Acropora, followed the trails of blood from various escaped tributes and created a lethal team, killing off Hudson (7) and Doris (9) within the first five minutes.

For the next days, they hunted tirelessly for a source of water, whilst working together to capture insects for food. However after coming across beetles crawling from the flesh eaten corpse of Camilla (2), the pair realized that not all the insects were edible. Soon, they also came to realize that the only water in the games had been bottled water in the cornucopia, which had very swiftly been snatched up after the games had begun.

Over the following days, Farrell and Acropora also encountered several tributes who appeared to have become insane with thirst and so they rather easily killed these tributes. By doing this, it raised their chances of winning and they started to be sent water bottles and food from sponsors.

One morning when Farrell and Acropora were roaming into an uncharted section of the caves, they came across the career pack, who were sleeping in the middle of a small cave. Acropora suggested setting some of the beetles on the career pack and so they carefully used water bottles to take beetles from the nearby corpse of Jetty (6) and they quickly dropped them into the career's cave. As they ran off, they heard screams and panic from the careers, which were ended when Jupiter killed of Diarite and Velvet (both 1) due to their loud hysteria which could attract other tributes.

With only a handful of tributes left, the caves started to collapse from the perimeter inwards. Whilst running back to the cornucopia, Farrell realized what he would have to do and he tripped Acropora. This led her to collapse upon the ground and ultimately be crushed by the then-imminent cave collapses. As an injured Acropora screamed obscenities at Farrell, he kept running and ultimately had the final battle with Polly (6) in the central cave. They were both empty-handed, but Farrell managed to kick her head straight into a jagged rock face, before gauging her eyes until she died.

After returning to District 4, Farrell suffered for several years after what he had seen and he developed an intense fear of any kind of insect. However, after receiving support from his mentor, Mags, he got better and went on to get married and have children.