71st Hunger Games

71st Hunger Games
Type	Regular
Victor	Johanna Mason
Victor's home	District 7
Mentioned	The Hunger Games, Catching Fire
Preceded by	70th Hunger Games
Followed by	72nd Hunger Games

The 71st Hunger Games were held three years prior to the start of the trilogy. They were won by Johanna Mason, the female tribute from District 7.

Summary

Known tributes

• Johanna Mason - District 7 (victor) - mentored by Blight presumably

Pre-Games

Chariot rides

Johanna and her district partner likely wore tree costumes for the Tribute Parade, since Johanna said the District 7 stylist had dressed her tributes the same way for decades.

The Games

"Pretty clever, the way she played it."

—Katniss Everdeen about Johanna's strategy

Johanna training with an axe in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Johanna initially presented herself as a "sniveling, cowardly fool", pretending to be weak so that she would be ignored in favor of more threatening tributes. However, when there were only a handful of tributes remaining, "it turned out that she could kill viciously"— most likely with an axe, as she was adept with them in the 75th Hunger Games.

Aftermath

"They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love."

—Johanna Mason

By the time of the third Quarter Quell, Johanna had lost any friends or family that she cared for, presumably killed by the Capitol.

Trivia

• Johanna presumably got a low training score on purpose to keep up her guise of weakness.
• Since Haymitch Abernathy's family was killed after his Games, and he mentioned Johanna's name when he spoke about being held up as an example to younger victors, it is commonly theorized that Johanna refused to be sex trafficked as Finnick Odair had been, so her loved ones were killed in retaliation.
• The German translation of The Hunger Games says that Johanna won seven years before the 74th Hunger Games. This would mean that at least in the German version of the text, she won the 67th Hunger Games rather than the 71st.
  • In order for her to still be 21 during Catching Fire per Suzanne Collins' Time interview, she would have had to win the 67th Hunger Games at only 13 years old.
    • Though, this would not be possible, as it was stated Finnick was the youngest victor, winning at the age of 14.