Yeah. They called it The Hunger Games - due to the fact that there are food shortages everywhere, and whoever wins every year gets a giant supply of food brought to their hometown every month for the year.

[the bitterness in his tone is so strong, you could make coffee with it]

Each year, two kids from each of the Districts - a boy and a girl, between twelve and eighteen - are chosen to participate. And they're brought to the Capitol for the Games.