User blog comment:Cloveismywife/225th Hunger Games - Dual Arenas/@comment-4988520-20121006174625

First off, I want to thank everyone for being so involved and active in these Games. These are my most successful Games to date, and it is only because of you guys. I honestly loved all of the tributes, and especially as it got closer, it was hard for me to kill them.

When I was originally picking tributes from the selected ones, I had three victors in mind: Copper Overdeen, Fabio Batone, and Bloom Winterlake. I really liked these tributes from the submissions, and I had them as victors initally. Obviously that didn't happen, which is why I don't preselect victors.

As training went on, I liked other tributes. Before I wrote Day 1 of the first arena, I had six victors victors in mind: Copper Overdeen, Fabio Batone, Maysilee Cresent, Hex Servirior, Amber Agate and Yuna Besaid. Again, none of these people won.

Now, keep in mind that I had the twists planned out already, so I was planning on having Fabio and Maysilee from Arena 1 win with Copper and Amber from Arena 2. However, when TBWTPT came up with to plan to kill Copper, I knew I had to kill him because it would've been unfair if I kept him alive.

As the Games progressed, I began to prefer Sian over Yuna and Katrin over Amber. I was still planning on six victors, three from each arena. From Arena 1 it would've been Fabio, Maysilee, and Hex and Arena 2 would've been Sian, Emily, and Raden or Camellia.

When it got to the final arena, I had no idea who would win. I was originally not going to include the second twist and have Battleaxe, Lira, Fabio, and Maysilee win. But then I wanted Katrin and Hex too from Arena 1, so I figured I would just let it play out and base it off mentor advice.

As the Games progressed, Jonah and Lira were originally not going to win. The four victors were going to be Fabio, Maysilee, Sian, and Emily. But, VDA kept banging out these awesome plans and I began to prefer Lira over Maysilee. Then, I realized I couldn't have one of Fabio/Maysilee win, so I added Jonah in there and took out Emily because she ended up going alone.

tl;dr I liked basically all of the tributes at one point (even ones I didn't mention) and it came down to mentor advice in the end. I hope you enjoyed the Games. Thanks again everyone!