Tribute

Tributes are residents of the districts of Panem who are forced to participate in the annual Hunger Games. Except in special cases, such as for Quarter Quells, twenty-four children between the ages of 12 and 18 are chosen. Every district must give two tributes, a girl and a boy. The circumstances may be different if it is a Quarter Quell, like the 50th Hunger Games. That year, each district had to send two boys and two girls to compete, thus providing a total of 48 tributes.

Choosing the Tributes
Each year, all children aged twelve through to eighteen are separated into their respective age groups and herded into appointed areas. There are two glass balls, one for the boys and one for the girls, that have all the children of that District's names on slips of paper in them. Children who are twelve get their name entered once. Children who are thirteen get their name entered twice and so on until they are eighteen with seven entries. A child's name may be entered more times, depending on how much Tessera they have taken. For each portion of tessera taken by a child, with a maximum of however many people are in their family, their name gets added an extra time. However, these entries are cumulative, so all entries get rolled over to the next year. Gale took Tessera for five family members since he was first entered into the reapings, and so had his name entered forty-two times by The 74th Hunger Games.

The District's Escort picks a name out of each of the glass bowls, and the people who's names are chosen become the District's new tributes.

Volunteering
In some Districts, particularly 1, 2, and 4, so called "Career Tributes" who have been training all their lives volunteer to participate. In poorer Districts such as District 12, the Hunger Games are equivalent to death, therefore the volunteering regulations are rarely used.

Voting
In the first Quarter Quell, the tributes were not drawn randomly from the glass balls. Instead, they were voted into The Games by the people of their District.

The 45th Hunger Games

 * Chaff- District 11 (Winner)

The 50th Hunger Games (Second Quarter Quell)

 * Your Mom.- District 15


 * Fat Ass.- District 22 (Winner)

The 62nd Hunger Games

 * Enobaria- District 2 (Winner)

The 65th Hunger Games

 * Finnick Odair- District 4 (Winner)

The 70th Hunger Games

 * Annie Cresta- District 4 (Winner)

The 74th Hunger Games

 * Glimmer- District 1


 * Marvel- District 1


 * Clove- District 2


 * Cato- District 2


 * Foxface- District 5


 * Rue- District 11


 * Thresh- District 11


 * Katniss Everdeen- District 12 (Winner)


 * Peeta Mellark- District 12 (Winner)

The 75th Hunger Games (Third Quarter Quell)



 * Cashmere- District 1


 * Gloss- District 1


 * Enobaria- District 2


 * Brutus- District 2


 * Wiress- District 3


 * Beetee- District 3


 * Mags- District 4


 * Finnick Odair- District 4


 * Johanna Mason- District 7


 * Blight- District 7


 * Cecelia- District 8


 * Woof- District 8


 * Seeder- District 11


 * Chaff- District 11


 * Katniss Everdeen- District 12


 * Peeta Mellark- District 12


 * Morphlings district 6

Unknown Games

 * Mags - District 4 (winner)
 * Titus - District 6
 * Johanna Mason - District 7 (winner)
 * Lyme- District 2 (Winner)