Has President Snow ever won the Hunger Games?

During the books and movies of the Hunger Games universe, created by the author Suzanne Collinswe are explained that, to become a mentor of the tributes of your District that will participate in the competition, it is necessary that the person has won one of the previous editions.

In the new film in the franchise, “The Hunger Games: A Song of Birds and Serpents”, which is scheduled for release on November 17, we soon discover in the trailer that the young President Snow (Tom Blyth) will mentor Lucy Gray (Rachel Zegler), tribute from District 12, in the 10th edition of the contest. But, has he ever won the Hunger Games?

President Snow and the Hunger Games

“The Song of the Birds and the Serpents” will be set 64 years before the events of the Hunger Games, and will follow the story of a young President Snow, who is going through a difficult time when “he sees a chance to change his destiny when he is chosen to be a mentor in the Hunger Games, though he is disappointed to be assigned to a poor girl tribute from the wretched District 12,” as the official synopsis reads.

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Although, in the plot, Coriolanus Snow being elected as a mentor, he never won the Hunger Games. As reflected by the ScreenRant portal, at the time of the tenth edition, the concept of mentors was completely different from what we know in the stories starring Katniss and Peeta.

In that period, there was no idea of ​​using the citizens themselves to mentor the new tributes. In addition, the initial idea of ​​the games was to force young people from each District to experience everything that the Capital went through at the time of the first Panem war, where the population had to turn against each other to survive. It was exactly in this scenario that Snow grew up.

But why was he chosen as a mentor?

During the 10th edition, it was not mandatory for citizens to attend the Games. In fact, people didn’t have much interest in watching children fighting for their lives, so the ratings were very low.

That year, before the event, the organization decided to place the tributes in a kind of zoo, without access to food or medical care. As a result, many ended up dying even before the start of the competition, and those who survived ended up not resisting for a long time, as they were very sick.

To draw public attention and attract sponsors, the idea of ​​mentoring teenagers from the Capital arose. Thus, for the 10th Annual Hunger Games, senior students were chosen as mentors for the final project of their school careers. If they were successful, making their tributes win, they would win great scholarships to the university.