85th Hunger Games

The 85th Hunger Games were the 2nd Quinquennial Quell and were held in the Janssen Mansions and Studios, and lasted for 6 days. The main events were a cat invasion, tracker explosions, a dog chase down, targeted earthquakes, and a poison gas leak, with notable animals being cats and dogs. This year's victor was Madison Hawker, aged 17, from District 6.

Quell Rules:
The conditions for this Quinquennial Quell were that one tribute of either gender would be selected to represent their district, and the reaped tribute would select their district partner of the opposite gender. Instead of having one bowl for the female youths and a second bowl for the males, all of the name slips would be placed in one big bowl and the name would be selected from that. If the selected tribute was a female, they would choose a male partner, and vice versa.

In District 1, the population would vote for one tribute, either male or female, to represent their district, and this tribute would select their district partner. In District 2, all volunteers would fight in one arena, and the winning tribute would select their district partner.

Trivia

 * The winner of District 2's reaping games, Paulus, selected Discordia to be his district partner. As the pair had started dating the previous month, it is suggested that this is why he chose her, even though she had placed fifth in the reaping games.
 * District 6's reaped tribute, Arizona, looked very carefully along the lines of female youths, and when he saw Madison he let out a gasp of something akin to joy and declared that she would be his district partner. It later emerged that Madison had sold Arizona a 'dodgy batch' of morphling the week before, which led him to have a 'bad trip' and to be late for work, getting in trouble with the peace-keepers.
 * District 7's reaped tribute, Cherry, selected her partner from the oldest male youths. She did not have anyone specific in mind, and said that she chose Junipero because he had a 'kind face'.
 * District 9's chosen tribute, Fructo, accused Barlie of having chosen him because he rejected Barlie's advances the previous month.
 * District 10's reaped tribute, Bill, chose his ex-girlfriend Milka for his district partner. In Milka's pre-games interview, she ranted to Caesar and Eugenia about how it was bad enough that he had put her through two years of misery in their relationship, but now that he had chosen her for these games, she had no choice but to despise him.