Tribute tubes are how tributes are transported into the arena. The tubes are lifted from the Launch Room where a tribute will be dressed in the designed clothes and put in the tube.

Once the tributes enter the arena they are faced with land mines in front of the Cornucopia in the case of a land arena and must wait for one minute to step off their plate. If a tribute steps off too early the mines detonate and kill the tribute by blowing them sky-high. The slightest provocation can set off the mines to detonate as well. Once, a tribute dropped her tribute token, a small wooden ball, on the ground before the minute was up it triggered the land mines which blew her up. Her body parts were "practically scraped off the ground".