13th Games

This arena was one of the most popular arenas, which greatly confused many tributes, due to the unusually urban surroundings.

This years victor was Claudia Schmidt, age 17, from District 2. The arena was set in the Ruins of San Francisco, featured Boisterous bears, a Major earthquake, and lasted for 9 days.

Before the gong had even sounded, most tributes noticed that there were no weapons present. Desperate to kill off some of the strongest competition whilst the opportunity was present, Claudia immediately ran to a dilapidated building and ripped out some loose bricks, which she mashed against the heads of several tributes as they tried to escape.

Claudia grouped with the other careers and whilst roaming the streets, they found a park where many of the bears had gathered. Whilst these bears were not so bloodthirsty, their strong paws and overly playful behavior were enough to cause pain and injury to any human. Therefore, the careers coordinated together to chase tributes into this park, which often led to these tributes' demise.

When there were just ten tributes left, the career pack chased Filius (5) onto the largest bridge, but due to an earthquake that was triggered by the game-makers, most of the bridge collapsed, with all these tributes except for Claudia falling to a watery death, whilst she survived by holding onto the side wiring of the bridge.

Once Claudia made it back to mainland, she ripped out more bricks from other buildings and waited on the third floor of a central building. She then threw down the water bottles or food and when other tributes came to grab these supplies, she dropped the bricks on top of them, killing four different tributes in this way.

When only Claudia and Ramses (3) remained, they were chased by bears back to the ground floor of the tallest building. Although Ramses managed to stab Claudia with some jagged metal in her shoulder, she remembered some rock she had in her pocket and smashed it repeatedly against Ramses' head, thereby emerging victorious.

After her games, Claudia became known as 'Smasher Schmidt' by citizens of The Capitol and upon returning to District 2, she was one of the residents of the district to help set up an unofficial training academy for potential new tributes, which went on to be extremely popular, even among non-tributes.