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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Hunger Games] Why is there so little time between the reaping and the games? Wouldn’t it make for a better show if people had more time to prepare?
gpt
The games aren't for show.  They're a spectacle, and the show is part of the process, but the show isn't the purpose or goal of the games.   The only people enjoying the show are in the Capitol, and the Capitol doesn't need controlling.  Spectacle is a side effect.   
The games are about keeping the districts suppressed and oppressed.  It's not meant to be a fair fight, or an interesting fight, the game is meant to be rigged.  The inner districts have their career tributes, and those are the kids that are meant to win.  Allowing the outer districts time to train and prepare works against that.  
A victor is meant to be an unreachable goal for districts 3 through 12.  The tributes have no choice but to try and fight, but it's meant to be a hopeless chance.  The odd victory they manage to achieve is meant to placate that district for decades.  Victor villages are meant to remain mostly empty to prove to the people of the districts that they're not as good as the people of the capitol.  Prove to them that they should just accept their lot in life, knuckle under, and do the work that supplies the capitol.  
None of that is helped by giving their tributes more time to prepare, because in reality the outer district tributes will be stronger, and will win more often on a level playing field.