23rd Games

Along with the tenth games, this year's games are no longer shown on Capitol TV and have generally been erased from Capitol records.

This year's victor was Cirrus Quell, age 17, from District 7. The arena was set in Woodland lakes, featured tame jabberjays, and oxygen drop, and lasted for 10 days.

During the bloodbath, Cirrus narrowly avoided death at the hands of Arkon (1), who managed to take his jacket. After the surviving tributes fled from the cornucopia, they explored the arena and found places to hide from each other.

Alliances often shifted throughout these games and several tributes attacking each other, before working together when confronting other tributes.

With fourteen tributes remaining, the game makers announced that levels of oxygen would be dropped in the arena, with masks being provided in the cornucopia that would allow tributes to breathe. Cirrus narrowly managed to retrieve a mask, but four other tributes were not so lucky and were killed at the hands of the careers.

The next day, Cirrus rescued Gem (10) and made an alliance with her. The next day they were joined by Scout and Mason (both 9). The group was completely exhausted and agreed to take turns sleeping and keeping watch.

The game-makers soon manipulated tributes into the same area and the next day, a bloody showdown occurred. Allies suddenly turned on each other until only Cirrus and Arkon were supposedly left. However a dying Scout shot Akron with a cross-bow, leaving Cirrus to win. once Scout lost consciousness and died, Cirrus had a breakdown and killed himself.

This was the first suicide of a victor in or out of the arena and this open act of defiance led to Cirrus Quell's name, along with records of this year's games being scrapped from history. In penance for this act, The Capitol decided to introduce the 'Quarter Quell', with a special rule change being implemented into every 25th year of the games, starting with the 25th games that occurred two years later.