Location from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Capitol facility where tributes are housed, trained, scored, and polished for slaughter — penthouse luxury above, weapons training below, cameras everywhere.
The Training Center is where the Capitol transforms terrified children into entertainment products. Three days of training — weapons, survival skills, combat — watched by Gamemakers who assign scores that determine sponsorship odds. The tributes sleep in absurd luxury: penthouse suites, unlimited food, Avox servants. The contrast is the point. The Capitol wants them comfortable enough to perform, scared enough to be interesting. Career tributes use the training floor to intimidate. Outer-district kids try to learn something — anything — that might keep them alive for one more day. The private sessions where tributes demonstrate skills for Gamemakers are theater: Katniss shot an apple out of a roast pig's mouth when they stopped paying attention.
A towering glass-and-steel building in the Capitol's center. Underground training floors stocked with every weapon imaginable, obstacle courses, survival stations. Upper floors house tributes in penthouse suites with Capitol attendants. The roof overlooks the city.
Also known as: the Training Center, tribute training facility