Training Center

The Training Center is a skyscaper located in the Capitol where the tributes live and train in preparation for the Hunger Games. Their mentor, escort, stylist, and prep team also stay with them during this time.

Design


The tributes and their teams stay in a tower connected to the training center with each district inhabiting a separate floor. The tower has an open roof that includes a garden which provides an excellent view of Capitol and is enclosed by a force field to thwart any attempt at suicide. It can be assumed that the Training Center it is one of the taller buildings in the Capitol.

An underground gymnasium filled with training stations and obstacle courses is where the tributes prepare and practice for the challenges in the arena. The training stations spaced throughout the center are based on different skills that may prove to be vital, including knot tying, edible plants, camouflage, and weaponry. Experts are placed at each station to instruct and serve as training partners to the tributes as they are forbidden to fight each other before the Games begin.

The clothing each tribute wears is determined by their stylist although each has a cloth square with their district number pinned to their shirt. In the film the tributes wear identical training uniforms distinguished by their respective district number.

Routine
Tributes attend training three days in a row. It starts at 10:00 each morning, though almost all tributes arrive early during the 74th Hunger Games. Once they are all assembled, Atala explains the different centers. The tributes are told not to ignore survival skills because they are just as important as the weapon stations.The trainees are reminded that they cannot fight with each other before the Games, but, if they want to spar, they can request an assistant to practice with. The Career Tributes typically go directly to the stations with the most deadly weapons when training starts in an attempt to intimidate the other tributes. All tributes lunch together afterward in a dining room attached to the gym. Alliances are often formed during this time after the tributes have seen each others' abilities in training and have a chance to talk.

Private Sessions


After a period of time, the tributes show the Gamemakers what they are capable of, choosing a particular skill they excel at, and are scored from 1 to 12, 1 being very low and 12 being almost impossible to achieve. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark were the first tributes to be awarded a score of 12 as a result of their actions during the 75th Hunger Games, although this was deliberately done so the other tributes would target them. Katniss always surprised the Gamemakers in her private sessions. In the 74th Hunger Games, she shot an arrow directly at their table, skewering an apple in the mouth of a roast pig that had been brought in for them, and then walked out without being dismissed. For the 75th Hunger Games, she created an of Seneca Crane, wrote his name on it with berry juice, and hung it by a noose. Peeta painted a picture of Rue, Katniss's ally in the 74th Hunger Games.

Film portrayal
The Training Center in the film appears to not be as tall as depicted in the book. The building also includes a balcony in which President Coriolanus Snow makes his annual speech along with other government officials.