Welcome To District 12 Visits The Hob!

Check it out! We visited The Hob campground, the place where all the campers for the World Premiere of The Hunger Games resided. The day before the premiere a different cast member showed up every hour! We interview some cool super fans, and even meet some cast members! Most excitingly, we also run into Adam and Savanna from the HG Fireside Chat! Also, check out our photo album from the event HERE

The Day The Fansites Met on ABC Nightline!!

It will live in infamy: The day the fansites met. It was a glorious day, and one I will not soon forget. Sunday March 11th, 2012. The fansites explored the Hob campground, interviewed campers, took photos with cast, and even met some too! But what happened afterwards was quite interesting indeed. We had a "barbecue" at one of the coolest places, the #CapitolShore. Interestingly enough, Nightline swung by the party! Fast forward to tonight, when Nightline showed a bit on The Hunger Games. It talks about the growing fandom, the fansite "barbecue", and a bit on Emily Ansara Baines, the author of The Unofficial Hunger Games cookbook.

You can watch the whole Nightline episode HERE at the ABCNews website. Skip to the second section of the video.

Check out some screencaps from the episode!

Kimmy from Mockingjay.net

There's Courtney with the headband, AJ, and Tiffany at the table.

WAY more pictures including awesome fansite people, and famous Adam Spunberg and Shylah Addante UNDER THE CUT!

#HGFiresideChat 50th Episode TOMORROW!

Listen tomorrow at 7PST/10EST! Both Tiffany and Courtney will be on to talk about the premiere shenanigans!

“The World is Watching”
Happy 50th birthday (anniversary?) to us!
Click here to listen to Episode 50 LIVE this Monday night (3/19/12) starting at 10pm ET/7pm PT!
Episode 50 (hooray!) of Hunger Games Fireside Chat will air live this Monday, March 19, at 10pm ET/7pm PT! This week, our panel of experts will include some of our fabulous friends from Down with the Capitol, Crystal of Mockingjay.net and FictionalFood.net, Sam of Sam Cushion Music, Tiffany from Victor’s Village, Ariel of Nerdy, Wordy, and Almost Thirty, and Courtney of Welcome to District 12. Natasha from TheFandom.net will also join us to chat about her experience camping out at the Hob in L.A.
- We’ll spend most of the show talking about our experiences attending the World Premiere of The Hunger Games in Los Angeles. We’ll chat about the Hob, the actors we met, the premiere itself, and our reactions to the film. (If you missed our video Ustream live from L.A., click here to watch it. Our pictures and video from L.A. are here, and you can read our initial, spoiler-free movie reactions here.)
If you have any questions you’d like to submit about the premiere, please tweet us, e-mail us, or leave a comment here!
- We’ll also discuss the impending worldwide release of the movie, current box office predictions/reviews, midnight showing DOs and DON’Ts, costumes, and more!
You can chat with other listeners throughout the live show by using our hashtag #HGFiresideChat on Twitter! We recommend TweetChat to easily follow along with the conversation.
Follow this week’s participants on Twitter:
Adam Spunberg (Host): @AdamSpunberg
Savanna New (Co-Host/Producer): @MlleNouveau
Down with the Capitol: @HungerGamesDWTC
Crystal: @pikko / @mockingjaynet / @FictionalFood
Sam: @sam_cushion
Tiffany: @twiffidy / @VictorsVillage
Ariel: @Madam_Pince
Courtney: @WtoD12
Natasha: @TFGeekGirl

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#HGFiresideChat Host Savanna New & Fansite Shenanigans in the LA Times

Fansite people eat and chat at In-n-Out

So I guess it must be said that last weekend was the best weekend of our lives. We met fansite runners who we have been dying to meet for months, when Lionsgate was nice enough to invite us all to the Hunger Games World Premiere in L.A. In the photo above, mostly everyone had just flown in and we all sat and talked at the In-n-out near the airport. Pictured above, Adam Spunberg and Savanna New from the HG Fireside Chat, and Shylah, Arianna, Flo, and Theresa from Down With The Capitol.

Needless to say, we all had a blast. Visiting The Hob campground on Sunday was one of my personal favorites (which there will be a big post about that day soon), as well as Livin' it up at the "Capitol Shore" for a fun party, and lastly the big premiere. You can imagine my surprise when I found this article in the Business section of the L.A. Times quoting none other than #HGFiresideChat host Savanna New!

And the studio reached out to the operators of fan websites, sending them "Hunger Games" goodies and inviting them to the premiere. Dozens came to Los Angeles for the event and even met for a party in Los Feliz on Sunday.
'They did so much stuff for the fans, it was crazy' said Savanna New, a Florida teacher who runs a weekly podcast devoted exclusively to 'The Hunger Games.'
'We were all really glad they didn't show the games, because it kept up the mystery and made us want to see it more.'

Not only was our friend Savanna quoted in the L.A. Times, but it even mentioned the party we had at the house all the fansites were staying at! Too crazy! The shindig was a festivity full of food, Hunger Games discussion, and even a livestream hosted by Adam and Savanna.

CELEBRITY SIGHTING! Aldrin, the District 2 Mayor at the legendary shindig in Los Feliz

#HGFiresideChat Livestream during the shindig. CLICK HERE to watch it!

We also hung out with the likes of people from Mockingjay.net, HG Girl on Fire, and the ever so awesome Sam Cushion. It was so heartbreaking to say goodbye to all these fine people! The weekend was without a doubt, LEGEN-wait-for-it-I-hope-you're-not-lactose-intolerant-because-the-rest-of-that-word-is-DARY. 

Stay tuned for a post on our AWESOME GIVEAWAY, our reactions on the movie, and our experience at The Hob campground.

#HungerGames12: The IMAX giveaway!

#HungerGames12 is HERE! In celebration of 12 days to The Hunger Games, we are giving away TWO PAIRS of Imax tickets to a showing of The Hunger Games on March 23rd in Philadelphia!

This is the specific theatre we are giving away tickets for:

Philadelphia

UA King of Prussia Stadium 16 & IMAX

7:00 PM

To enter just comment on this post with a Hunger Games themed Haiku! In case you didn't know, a haiku is a three lined poem with the first line being 5 syllables, followed by 7, then lastly 5. We can't wait to see what you come up with! Contest ends March 17th, 2012 and it will be random!

HAPPY HUNGER GAMES!

CHECK OUT #HUNGERGAMES12!

**Congrats to LiraDorovict and tarnar27!! Email us @ welcometodistrict12@gmail.com to claim your prize! 

WOW! DWTC's Arianna to Co-Host Livestream of Premiere with Josh Horowitz!

This is incredible news! One of our friends over at DWTC, Arianna gets a golden opportunity! She is going to co-host the MTV livestream of the Hunger Games premiere red carpet with Josh Horowitz! Check it out:

Earlier today, MTV tweeted that it would be livestreaming the Red Carpet premiere for The Hunger Games this Monday:

Well, we are very proud to announce that our own admin, Arianna, will be co-hosting the event alongside MTV’s own Josh Horowitz!
The livestream will run from 5:30 PM PST (8:30 PM EST) through 7:30 PM PST (10:30 EST) and MTV is looking for your input! Tweet your questions for the cast using the twitter hashtag #AskHG or leave Arianna some talking points in the comments below!

Source: DWTC

Arianna, we are so happy for you!