The Quarter Quell arena
The clock-shaped arena from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, used as the analogy for the six-armed Snowflake map on which the models were run against each other.
ImageSources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 2 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Film year and director checked against Lionsgate’s announcement; the arena analogy was checked in the local essay.
- Lionsgate — Francis Lawrence to direct Catching Fire
The studio’s announcement names the director and the November 2013 release date.
- Essay and image in this repository
Supports the essay’s use of the arena as an analogy for Snowflake. Checked against the local essay and its asset; the URL is the publication locator.
What this check doesn’t establish
- Source identification does not establish permission to reproduce this asset.
- The analogy does not establish that map design controls all differences between model runs.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
- Creator
- Francis Lawrence
- Created
- 2013
- Medium
- video
- Rights
- fair dealingThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), dir. Francis Lawrence, Lionsgate
- Reuse notes
- The existing catalogue records a fair-dealing rationale for this use. No asset-specific licence or permission is recorded; this source review does not establish legal clearance.
Used as a visual analogy for the Snowflake map. A symmetrical arena is a design choice, not evidence that every outcome difference can be attributed to the model.
In the essays
- I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke.
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