The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes sees a young President Snow as a mentor in the Hunger Games, but this wasn't because of any past victories.
In the original Hunger Games books and movies, the District mentors are the past victors from the Games—but this won't be the case in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The prequel film trailer showed a young President Coriolanus Snow serving as a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games, which seems to imply that he had once participated in the events himself.
Snow Never Won Or Competed In The Hunger Games Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes reveals that Coriolanus Snow had been a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games, but this wasn't because he had been a victor. At this point in the Games' history, the concept of mentors was brand new, and no one had considered using District citizens to do the job. However, this isn't to say that the young Snow didn't understand what it was like to fight for his life.
Still, Coriolanus' experience with the Hunger Games didn't end at war and mentorship. In The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the young mentor got wrapped up in a series of events that led to him sneaking into the arena. While there, he was forced to kill one of the tributes—his very first taste of murder. Moreover, his role as mentor went even further when he cheated to ensure that his tribute, Lucy Gray Baird from District 12, won.
During the 10th Annual Hunger Games, students in their final year of school were made mentors. It became the final project of their school careers, and doing it well—such as leading their tribute to victory—would result in scholarships for University. In the case of Coriolanus Snow, his family's fortune had been lost during the war, and they had only managed to maintain their status by pretending that they weren't missing meals or wearing their clothing threadbare.
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