29th Games

Excluding the amphitheater days, this year's games are the shortest in the history of The Hunger Games.

This year's victor was Septimus Paddick, age 17, from District 2. The arena was set in abandoned quarries, featured Cunning owls, but had no main event, because it only lasted for 3 days.

During the bloodbath in the lowest section of the quarries, Septimus quickly grabbed machetes and used these to kill a record seven tributes in the opening two minutes.

This immediately made Septimus a strong competitor in the eyes of others, including his fellow careers and due to this, he infamously slaughtered the rest of the career pack on the first night.

Throughout the second day, Septimus killed owls for food, whilst spying on other tributes from the highest level of the quarries. When a tribute was close enough to him, he would chase and slaughter them, before returning to his vantage point and starting this process all over again.

By the time there were only three other tributes remaining, it was obvious Septimus was going to win and this even led one tribute, Dido (3), to kill herself in order to avoid facing him. The other two, Mariah and Joule (both 5) tried to kill Septimus together, but he took them both out by knocking them to the ground and strangling them simultaneously, thereby taking the win.

Upon winning, Septimus proved to be a favorite amongst citizens of The Capitol. However in the districts, he was nicknamed 'Psycho Septimus', because of his record kill count (18 kills) and the fact that he hardly showed any emotions during or after the games. Septimus went on to work with tributes in the Capitol's training center during the lead-up to future games.