The 70th Hunger Games was an edition of the Hunger Games that took place four years before the trilogy. The victor was Annie Cresta, the female tribute from District 4.[1]
Summary[]
Known tributes[]
- Annie Cresta - District 4 (victor)
- District 4 male - District 4
The Games[]
At some point during the Games, Annie saw the boy from her district get beheaded. Traumatized, she ran off by herself and hid from her competitors. An earthquake broke a dam, flooding most of the arena; however, Annie came from the fishing district, so she outlasted the other tributes because she was the best swimmer.[1]
Annie being reaped for the third Quarter Quell in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Aftermath[]
Peeta Mellark couldn't recall ever seeing Annie at the Games again,[1] and when she was reaped for the 75th Hunger Games five years later, Katniss Everdeen described her as being "hysterical" before Mags Flanagan volunteered to take her place.[2] When Katniss later personally met her, she noticed that Annie "[laughed] at odds points in the conversation or [dropped] out of it entirely".[3] Annie also seemed to dissociate[4] and/or hallucinate; Finnick Odair said she asked him when she was uncertain if something was real.[5]
Trivia[]
- Katniss did not remember the 70th Hunger Games particularly well because it happened the summer after her father died, when she was just beginning to run the household.[1]
- This also marked the first year that Katniss was eligible to have her name entered into the reaping.[1]
- The District 4 male was the only tribute known to be beheaded in the Games.
- However, many characters were decapitated by lizard mutts during the Battle of the Capitol, including Peacekeepers and various members of Squad 451. Annie's husband, Finnick, was one of the mutts' victims.[6]