Hunger Games

The Hunger Games (often shortened HG) are a Discord Event held most weekends on the CBL Discord Server. It is a simulation run like the Hunger Games, with 12 districts of each 4 tributes, all killing each other until only one tribute is left standing.

CBL users sign up with tribute names, and then watch the event happen live on the server - with the host posting how the simulation progresses. Depending on how your tribute does, you can win prizes such as currency, cards, and raffle tickets.

Timeline of a typical Hunger Games

 * 1) Sign-ups open: This is done with an announcement message on Discord in the Hunger Games channel. The message will tag everyone, and will also be pinned. This message will also specify prizes and any special rules.
 * 2) The sign-up period will run until either the full 48 tribute roster is filled, or we get close enough to the betting time that the sign-ups are simply closed. Remaining open spots are randomly divided between users.
 * 3) All participating users are sent a direct message on Discord about which tribute name they ended up with.
 * 4) Tributes are randomly filled into the 12 districts.
 * 5) Betting is opened with a new announcement message on Discord. This message will also tag everyone and be pinned, and it will have a link to the follow-along sheet, where users can see what districts the tributes ended up in. Typically, this message will also specify a bit more precisely when the games will start.
 * 6) There will usually be a 30 minute warning before the games will start, so the last people can get their bets in, and users can get their drinks and snacks ready in time.
 * 7) The games are now run in the simulator. The host will copy and paste most of the simulation results (although not every single line, that would become boring very fast). Users can follow along in the follow-along sheet, where kills and some of the prizes are marked while the game is run. You don't have to be around and watch, but it's more fun to follow the games live, and root for your favorites.
 * 8) Once the games have concluded, prizes are announced and paid out.
 * 9) Finally, bets are tallied up and paid out as well.

Sign-ups
Sign-ups are usually opened either Thursday or Friday, with the HG event run on Saturday. It is always announced in the Hunger Games channel with a tag, and a pinned message.

To sign up, you fill in a Google Form (linked in the sign-up message) with a prioritized comma separated list of celebrity names that you would like to send in as your tribute in the games. Typically, you will get the first name in the list, but if another user has already signed up with that name, it goes to your second name, and so forth. If you only send in a single name, and it is already taken, you will get a random database celeb as your tribute.

You can use any name as a tribute, however if you use a database celeb, they will be eligible for Hunger Games cards (more on those further down).

Cost of sign-up
A single tribute will cost you 100 tokens. These are only subtracted once the games are done - at the same time as prizes are paid out - so make sure that you have enough in your bank account.

Second tributes
Initially, each user will only get one tribute. However, if the full 48 tribute roster has not been filled once sign-ups are closed, you have a chance of getting a second tribute. You will only be on the list for the second-tribute draw if you mark your interest for this in the sign-up form.

How to know if your sign-up went through
In the pinned sign-up message on Discord, there is a link to the CBL Status Sheet, where you can see your username show up once you have filled in the Google Form. If you misspelled your username, the form will ignore you, and you will not show up in this sheet - so it's worth double-checking that you actually did it right.

Once the sign-ups are closed, you will receive a direct message on Discord, telling you which tribute(s) you ended up getting.

Prizes
Prizes are always posted in the message announcing that sign-ups are open. Typically, you will get 1 Gold Coin (GC) per kill your tribute does, with an extra bonus 5 EXP per multi-kill they do (3 or more tributes getting killed in one line). If several tributes work together to get the kill(s), they both get the full GC/EXP.

Depending on how well your tribute does - both with how long they survive and how many kills they get. You can also win cards from different tiers, that change once in a while - an example of a card tier list is shown on the right, but an updated list will always be posted with the sign-up announcement message. Tributes in the same district as the final winner will also get random SIF cards.

If you win cards, or win currency because your tribute got the most/second-most kills or won/got second place, you will be tagged in the Hunger Games channel after the prizes have been determined. You will not be tagged if you only got GC and/or EXP for kills.

Often there are also Raffle Tickets (RT) and random HG cards up for grabs, for specific events happening to your tribute, or if your tribute kills a tribute with an RT target on them.

Hunger Games cards
There are two kinds of HG cards: 25-kill club cards and single-game kill cards. These are given to database celebrities for different reasons, as is described below. A few examples of these cards are shown here:

Seasons
Both the 25-kill club and the single-game kill numbers run in seasons, in between which we reset the kill counts for all celebs. The main season is changed once we hit 10 HG25 cards added, while the run of single-game kills is reset a little more often (when we decide that the kill numbers have stagnated). When the season is changed, the single-game kill run is reset at the same time, to keep things simple.

You can see an overview of the seasons, single-game kill runs, and already existing HG cards in the CBL Status Sheet.

25-kill club (HG25) cards
After each HG has been run, we save the kill statistics for all database celeb tributes. Over time, the total kill numbers rise, and celebs that get to 25 kills overall get a HG25 card.

A database celeb can only get one HG25 card, so if they reach 25 kills in a new season, they will be skipped.

Single-game kill leader (HGK) cards
For each single game, if a database celeb tribute gets a higher number of total kills compared to the last single-game kill leader, they get a HGK card.

Database celebs can get several HGK cards, if they reach a top single-game kill number in a new run of HGK kill counting. If they already have a first HGK card, the next cards will have slightly different designs, as you can see for the HGK-1, 2, and 3 cards in the examples above.

When the single-game kill counts are reset, the first card in the new run will typically be the database celeb that reaches the highest kill count in the first three games.

Betting
Most runs of Hunger Games will have betting available. Once sign-ups are closed and the districts have been randomly distributed, a message will be posted and pinned in the Hunger Games channel about betting.

Any user can do betting, using tokens, GC, and/or EXP. There is a limit of 6 bets per user. Typically, you can bet on what district will win, what tribute will die first, who will win or get into top-3, and more. All possible bets, along with their payout odds, are posted in the message.

You bet by sending a DM with your bets to the host.

Do I have to do anything?
The only thing you have to do, is sign up. Everything is run in a randomized simulation, and you don't have to follow along live.

You can do bets, once those have been announced open, but you don't have to.

What happens if all my tribute names are taken?
If you only fill in a single name in the sign-up Google Form, or if all the names you filled in were already taken by other users, you will be given a random database celeb as your tribute.

If you want to avoid this, simply make your list of comma separated names longer, or add in celebrity names that are not database celebs at the end (those are probably not taken by others).

You will only know what specific tribute name you end up with, once you get the direct message on Discord, after sign-ups have been closed.

What is this wet and stupid thing?
There is a line in the simulator, saying "[tribute] is overpowered while fishing and falls in a lake". Back in the day, this line made people ask if the tribute died from this event or not. It is not a death event, but the tribute does become wet, and also stupid.

Now, it is a thing to bet on for most Hunger Games: You can bet on what district the first tribute to become wet and stupid comes from. The line is not guaranteed to show up every HG, but will most times. If it does not show, you will lose your bet.