Tribute tubes



Tribute tubes, each brand new and only used once, are how tributes are transported into an arena. The tubes are launched from the launch room. Once the tributes enter the arena they are surrounded by mines and must wait one minute to step off their plate. If a tribute steps off early they are blown up by underground mines, which are deactived after the minute is up (the male tribute from district 3 managed to reactivate the mines, causing a booby-trapped path to the career's supplies). Once, a tribute dropped her token, a small wooden ball, on the ground around her feet before the minute was up. They had to literally scrape bits of her off the ground.