How do the training academies work? 

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I've never noticed before when Cato says killing is all he knows how to do. It almost makes me feel bad for him, he spent his whole life training for this one thing and maybe not focusing on anything else. Even if he had won I can't imagine what that would do to your psyche (even if they are trained to kill) and what you would do to move forward with your life.

If I was born in a Career district, I'd be so happy because then everybody would wanna volunteer in my place hee hee.

I think it’s a strong possibility that the academies train district pairs together. Cato and Clove in particular seem to have a very close bond and a deep understanding, indicating that they are likely close friends. Not to mention their skill sets complement each other, with Clove being skilled at knife throwing and Cato good at close combat. Since it’s considered extremely bad form to kill your district partner, I can see them creating pairs with good chemistry and complementing skills, even if one is younger than the other. That could explain why Clove volunteers even though she’s only 15. She and Cato are district pairs and it’s Cato’s last year to volunteer.

Me, a future Career: UGH, Can you BELIEVE I had to drop martial knife throwing for Firestarting 101 with Prof. Miner??? What a garbage course I can't believe it's worth 4 credits!!!! I thought maybe they'd let me take trapping or field medicine instead but those are both electives and Prof. Alchemy is out until Fall semester... If I wasn't so good at archery I'd drop. My mom's complaining to the Academy Deans.

I know it's a slightly crazy theory, but to choose who volunteers in the career districts they might choose the best few males and females and have their own untelevised hunger games in the academies and the winners volunteer.

I don’t think there would be two separate schools. I think the careers schooling would all happen at the academy with day split. In the regular school I think they would do subliminal messaging for the second the kids go to school; such as counting weapons or having weapons as math examples instead of something normal like watermelon.

Remember- the “favoritism” from the Capitol all stems from how loyal the districts were during the dark days. 1, 2, and 4, were all very loyal amidst the rebellion. 3 and 8 were a couple of the districts that fought the hardest, which is why they aren’t career districts.

District 4 provides the Capitol with a lot of their fish, 1 is luxury goods so supply the Capitol with jewellery, perfumes and makeup etc, and 2 trains Peace Keepers, who probably have a few more privileges than others from that district, so it makes sense that they are the Career Districts. Your explanation for training makes sense, especially the desensitisation to killing!

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What if more than one child wanted to volunteer and both said “I volunteer as tribute”, what dyou think would happen? Do you have any knowledge or assumptions of what might happen?:))

Yeah but fin nick in the books said that his district came along way most likely referring to poverty to wealth, also from the information we have 4 is most likely in Louisiana and Florida

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Actually, district 2 geographically is the closest to the capitol, with district 1 not far away either.

due to the way the career districts enjoy competing in the games i think it actually is reasonable for them to sometimes appoint younger tributes like Clove to show off how strong their tributes are despite their age. Also a more sadistic yet still realistic perspective could argue that the districts WANT to have young victors just like district 4 with Finnick being the youngest at 14, some sort of weird competitive side of them thinking that they can top that and have even more praise from the capitol for it

i believe the movie interviews for basically everyone but peeta and katniss were actually improvised by the actors, and i don't particularly think they count as canon, as they weren't in the movie/script and marvel's story in his interview about his dad being a hunter doesn't quite make sense. also, i think a possible concept would be that career rejects from district 2 become peacekeepers?

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given that the games it is possible it could be district vs district for victory i reckon they would have an attachment killing, so they would be given an animal to look after and get attached to, part of their training is to kill it, if they could kill that then it's likely be ready to kill in the games and not care about attachment

Along with all the combat training, I think that part of the careers training includes swimming. In catching fire book, all the careers know how to swim. Almost all the other tributes dont know how to swim, katniss only does because her father taught her because of the lake. finnick was one of the few people that knew how to swim because he was from a district that had lots of water. So Mags knew how to swim a little bit too. As you can see not that many people can swim, this is one of the reasons why the careers have an advantage other than combat.

I have a video suggestion... Maybe you could do how would the 3rd quarter quell have ended if Katniss hadn't destroyed the arena and allowed District 13 to save her.

district 1 2 4 were the most loyal to the capital during the rebellion before the games started

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I think some might voulenterr early like 16 or 17 for 2 reasons 1 that still means they had a long time to train and win and they are pretty physically built by now 2 becuase if your 18 and somon else volunteered and they got sent in and you who also volunteered won’t be able to go in by the next reaping you’ll be 19 and unable to participate in the games

I've always wondered, what happens if multiple people volunteer? How do you choose? This must happen all the time in the career districts.

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My question is what does the capitol do if a non career district kid had previous training. Like Katniss, it's obvious she could shoot the bow before coming to the games so why didn't they do anything about it. And she couldn't have just learned to use the bow in training because she waited to show her skill until the grading.

1 2 and 4 are career due to money and what they have to offer to the capital, 1 and 2 are Mason and Textile all the fashion and fancy architectural services in the capital are performed by districts 1 and 2. 4 is fishing many banquets offer seafood as a status which district 4 provides

Wait why did she play the clip of finick after she said that young vile trees could just be arrogant? Finick was reeped

But finnick was reaped and he did not volunteer he expected someone else to be reaped when he was 18 and volunteer then

I thoght for the final exam tlinstead of killing an animal they could just execute someone, since there are plenty of execution in Panem. And by someone I meen a lot of peopole, after all they are compleatly de-sentitize from death when we saw them.

Wait I feel like Glimmer wasn’t done with training/hadn’t graduated since she was not as good with her weapon How did I just notice this...

I feel like a love wold have one if Thresh hadn’t showed up!

Clove is really pretty

There is school during the panem era???

If I was in the timeline I’d be lucky cause where I live is where district 13 is!!!!

What would of happened if katniss was a reaped and prim volunteered

Are the Careers chosen, or do they join voluntarily?

district 4 is one of the wealthiest districts of panem. They are good at identifting edible sealife to

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The careers a commentary on privilege. The children/people from career districts believe they are less oppressed and perceive themselves to have more free will and uphold the system by doing so. They don’t realize they are oppressed and are complicit in their own oppression.

Imagine how deadly clove would be with 3 more years of training and physical development under her belt.

If Clove would’ve waited until she was 16 to volunteer for the Games I think she would’ve won!

I don’t think District 4 actually trains for the games, but they’re normally career tributes because they have a background knowledge on spears , nets, and tridents.

I hadn’t thought about lessons for teaching the future career tributes how to kill in not just a physical sense, but also a phycological sense. Perhaps political prisoners and dissidents could also be provided by the capitol for the career tributes to practice killing. since the impact emotionally of killing an animal and a human are probably very different. The capitol might want to kill two birds with one stone and execute prisoners as well as train possible future career tributes at the same time.

It's stated in the books that it's "complicated rules" about volunteering in the career districts. My guess would be, and I'm pretty sure about that, is the fact that it's decided before the reaping who can volunteer - regardless of the age, like Clove perhaps. For this reason, it means that Glimmer was strong and while she wasn't the best with a bow, she was good with something else :)

Like if you prefer thresh Comment if you prefer Cato Also comment if you like both

The training academies actually sound like a good idea. First, you spare the younger, weaker kids from being reaped and make sure that everyone who goes to the Games goes on their free will because they volunteered. However, it also shows how ignorant the Capitol actually was. How can a tyrannical state allow two warrior-training academies from the districts under their very nose? Since they are not being supervised, how can they know these children are not also being secretly trained to be ready for a potential rebellion should the time come?

There’s something I just randomly thought of. In the books it says that the careers are ‘brainwashed’ into believing the games are a great honour to win. I randomly thought one day Hey! Maybe the careers aren’t brainwashed into thinking that it would be a great honour to win. They’re brainwashed into thinking they have a huge advantage to winning, leading them to that glory and honour. But then once they’re in the games they do fine for a while. They manage to hunt down the weak and have a huge edge. But as the games progress they become alittle more vulnerable. If they get outsmarted, like what Katniss did, they start to struggle. Let’s say they make it like Cato did. They realise how weak and exposed they actually are, and the brainwashing is most likely not valid anymore. Now they actually have to fight for their lives and they haven’t done this before giving them a disadvantage. And then they’ll most likely reach a brutal death, now realising that they barely had an edge. And that this honour wasn’t worth it. This is just some trash I came up with and it’s prob not true. Great video though! :3

I always wondered why district 3 was not the most favoured considering they were the tech district. Beetee invented bombs, it was the boy from 3 who built the pyramid trap, and Beetee even mentioned that children were taught in school how to manipulate voices. I actually would not be surprised if district 3 was the home of the mutts. But I believe the the writer was making a statement about the superficial nature of the Capital by saying that district 1 was favoured because they made luxury items and district 2 supplies peacekeepers. I think district 4 was a threat since they were near the sea. Throughout histroy a seafaring nation like England needed a navy to defend itself and keeping them close would be an asset to the Capital.

Its also important to note than is District 2 training may of been very important in life, not just in entering the Hunger Games. Because District 2 was army/weaponry and Peacekeepers, Careers that hadn’t been picked for the Hunger Games in their lives could’ve just gone into one of the industries.

I think in their final test it might include killing an avox or other prisoner from the capital because a human’s reaction is going to be a little different than an animal’s reaction (regarding getting stabbed etc)

Why does the capital favor the career districts? District 1: Makes luxury items that please the capital as they are extremely wealthy and love luxurious things! District 2: Was loyal to the capital during the first rebellion and peacekeepers are also trained here and have an important industry masonry! District 4: I don't think district 4 are careers as they are rebellious but I think they just have a background on fighting as they used tridents which can be used as weapons, set traps, tie knots, and have very good swimming skills basically making everyone in 4 be like a career.

Kinda makes me wonder what the movie Catching Fire would be like had it had Haymitch in the arena.

by the way, if you were to volunteer before you were the right age, others volunteer too, and the mentor then chooses who goes into the games

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Do you think when district 12 was being burned down that Gale purposely didn't save the Mellark or Madge's family because of them being of a higher class/ or just a coincidence to show both of Peeta and Katniss close family and friends were killed.

Districts One and Two sided with the Capitol during the war, so the Capitol is a little more lenient with them. These are also the districts that most of the Peace Keepers are from, so they probably don't call it Tribute training, but something like Peace Keeper training. I don't know about District Four, though. District Four is fishing, so you have to wonder why they don't go out in their boats one day and never come back. Is the rest of the world dead? And what happened to Hawaii and Alaska?

Can you make what if Katniss killed Peeta and won? It sounds dark but I feel it would affect her relationship with Gale as well as The Quarter Quell. Also how I thought the training academies would be like a private school separated by gender cloaked as a rich school, but in reality they had classes on how to throw a knife or use a bow properly and to make an alliance. Thinks of Clove and Cato as anime characters..

i would love to see what wouldve happened if katniss ran away from the cournacopia with peeta...

also you know with the killing in the acadamy to practice they might use criminals or avox's

Great theory as to what the training academies might look like!

Can you make a video about what would happen if the districts won the first rebellion?

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The reason district four is a career I’d because of there loyalty

Why doesn’t the capitol have a close relationship with district 3? Do you have any idea?

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Hey story diver do u think if the capital won do u think they would still be careers

District 4 were a part of the career group because they were similar to 1 and 2 during the rebellion by not being as rebellious as the other districts. However they were a bit more rebellious than 1 and 2

Who trains the kids during the 4 days they have before the game like the scene seen in hunger games part one mentioning that 10 percent will die of dehydration

if I lived in one of the career districts I can just get lots of tesserae and even if I get reaped since I wouldn’t train for the hunger games I would be volunteered for so life in the career districts who didn’t volunteer would be good👍

I feel like some careers like Glimmer for example didn’t volunteer and was reaped but there was no one volunteering. Clove most likely had the same case.

If District 4 is a career district like D1 or D2 Finnick probably did very well at the academy and progressed quickly. District 4 probably was far away from the capital city, at least as far away as the Pacific coast or the Gulf coast but could, of course, be ideologically close. District 11 and 12 are not career districts but Katniss was a specialist also, not only with a weapon (bow) but as an outdoor savvy person and hunter/gatherer, and that allowed her to win (survive). Rue seemed to have outdoor skills and knowledge of plants also, and so did probably Thresh. Dive safely.

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I can’t really think that the career districts would train every child. I think they’re enrol every child for the first year, then the strongest and most enthusiastic children would continue training until they’re 18

But like if there's 10 careers trying to volunteer at the reaping who do thy pick?

The biggest question I’ve had from the books is why was Finnick even in the games if district 4 was a career district? He went into the games at 15, shouldn’t a career have volunteered for his place instead of?

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Maybe District 4 is a career tribute because they can't stop their kids for swimming and using nets and tridents so, they are very strong children and since District 4 produces fish, this can make very healthy children, and well, you can get pearls from District 4, so they are kind of wealthy... don't know really, just thinking. But for the 74th games the boy of District 4, in the movie and the book, was a little boy, in the book the girl of District 4 were in the career pack

I believe district 4 is a career due to their knowledge of certain weapons plus they supply the capitol with seafood. In catching fire The prep team complain about lack of shrimp. So the capitol May be reluctant to piss them off. As well as district 1 provides lavish gifts (gems, jewelry, nice clothes etc ) and district 2 provides their peacekeepers. So they are capital favorites. Except I find it odd district 3 doesn’t have that favor cus they provide electronics. Or that 11 who provides the majority of food has any favor, but I guess they’re well secured and have so much military presence.

I feel like alot of the careers could of won if they were not so cocky, like Clove could have easily killed katniss and run away if she didn't decide to have that whole revenge speech

I can only imagine how volunteering goes for Career Districts if everyone wants to go to the arena and win. “I Volunteer!” “NO! I VOLUNTEER!” And then they get into a shouting match and try to push the other off the stage where the tributes get selected

really good video :) I've never thought about why District 4 is also a career district :/ very stange ..district 1 and 2 make seen, but 4? I think some other districts would be more important when it comes to food. I think only Suzanne Collins knows why it is so :D you explain very thing very good. I love the way you draw your conclusions from everything. everything makes always sense to me. really great theorys ♥ i can´t wait to watch your next video, because I am sure it will impress me as much as this video ♥♥♥

Not alowing for training seems wierd. So waht? I cannot do a pushup? and how abaut 12 girl vs 18 boy? isint it unadvantage?

District 4, 2 and 1 have the best relationship with capitol as not only do they bring in luxury materials but they had the least involvment in the huge revolution against the capitol that started the hunger games and destroyed district 13.

This has me wondering what happens to the ones that train hard but never make it into the arena. Considering there's only one boy and one girl chosen each year and there's a small window of opportunity to volunteer, I can imagine this being the majority of potential career tributes. One possibility, particularly in 2, would be that a number of them would enlist to become peacekeepers (that would explain Thread's character, as he does seem to be compensating for something). Others might just end up finding some work that doesn't require much skill, considering the ones in 1 and 2 probably didn't learn to work in their district's industry due to spending most of their time at the Academy. The particularly nasty ones might just be unemployable, though. I can also see a lot of them living on the streets preferring to have just died in the arena, drinking home brew liquor and drunkenly picking fights with random people. I can also see a lot of them committing suicide, since in their minds, they missed the chance to fulfill their only purpose in life. It's dark, but I can't see life being very good to them once they reach adulthood and are forced to adjust to life outside of the Training Academies.

perhaps the tests may include killing disabled, orphaned or unwanted children. if this happens it would most likely be reserved for the higher level students or the ones less likely to reveal the practice to the public of the careers districts, for many parents this would be a discreet way of discarding the children that are nothing but a financial burden on the family. it may also be thought of as merciful, killing 'suffering' children that have no real prospects of making it to adulthood or it might be viewed as an honour to be killed by a promising student, kind of like a service to your district.

Are all tributes from District 1,2 and 4 all careers? If so, why did Annie Cresta got PTSD if she's trained for that kind of stuff?

Glimmer was definitely not ready and Clove definitely to young

District 4 is a career disyrict because they are incredibly wealthy like district 1 and 2

districts 1, 2, and 4 are "closest" to the capitol because they provide the goods the capitol desires the most (luxury items, weapons, and seafood/fish, respectively)

The boy from 4 looks like me a weird amount

but in the 74th hunger games, the district 4 kids are weak af

Even if district 2, the strongest career district in my opinion based on how well Cato, Clove, Brutus, and Enobaria performed in the 74th and 75th games , couldn't train their kids for the games, they still do fairly well. Just think about it. District 2's industry is masonry and peacekeeper/ weapons making. Working in a stone quarry involves a lot of hard physical labor. And if district 2 kids learned that trade before the dark days, many of them particularly the boys would be still physically stronger than maybe Cato and probably just as strong as Thresh. Cuz like Thresh, their muscles are naturally trained for not only physical strength, but endurance. And then there's the peacekeeper/ weapons making trade. Remember district 2 is a large district with a large population. So not every kid would work in the rock quarry. And that would mean from a young age, some kids would go to the peacekeeper academy or become blacksmiths. Peacekeepers are Panem's military. And they need to be physically and mentally prepared for just about anything, just like how the normal district 2 careers are strong and have a warrior mindset. And for those who make the weapons, that would give them exposure to swords, knives, or machetes just like how district 7 kids learn how to wield an axe from a young age. So in the end, many district 2 kids would already be natural careers without Capitol sponsored training academies. In this version of district 2, they may have 7 or 8 victors. Which is still a lot for any district. District 1? I don't know. Cuz I can't understand how being the most priveleged district in Panem where almost none of your kids starve, and having an industry that makes luxury products translates into the arena. Maybe some might know how to make poisonous concoctions like how Maysilee did in the second quarter quell cuz many perfumes are made out of substances that are lethal to humans. But that's just about it. Probably only 5 victors for district 1 if they couldn't train for the games

Video idea: Towards the end of Mockingjay, Coin talked to Johanna, Katniss, Peeta, Beetee, Annie, Enobaria, and Haymitch and told them they were the only remaining victors, but earlier in the book, Katniss had fought alongside former victor Lyme. What happened to her?

I also wonder whether some bullied kids in career districts, if their name gets pulled, no one will volunteer. Like, a rather lethal form of bullying. That could also be why sometimes weaker or younger children from career districts end up in the arena. I think we'd see this more in district 4, where there does seem to be a bit less glory involved with being chosen and winning - in 1&2 it's everything to them, so the 18 year olds are unlikely to put bullying above their own dreams; but 4, despite being careers, seem far less obsessed with it.

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I’m hoping that in the new book they elaborate on this topic, however I doubt they will!

For the 75th hunger games, I wonder what would happen if there was no male/female victor in a certain district. Say there’s only one victor from district 6, and it’s just a female. How would they get their other district 6 tribute? Would they just pick a random male?

I do agree that the "Training" does involve some killing, but I doubt it is only animals (after all, Katniss regularly kills animals, yet she finds it difficult to kill people directly in the arena. Meanwhile, Cato (Career) has no issue killing the District 3 boy after Katniss blows up the supplies. And Marvel, (Career) literally hunts down and kills Rue. Meanwhile, Clove (Career) is ready to torture Katniss to death. The hunting Katniss does could never allow her cold bloodedly murder another person, with the same careless ease that the Careers show when they kill...