The Raving Robot
Aha
While I agree that the team thing is stupid and incredibly pointless, I would also point out that Bella choose Edward in Twilight and it was obvious she would from the get go, but the fans still had teams for it.
And so far, this forum is the only place I've seen anyone bring up teams for Hunger Games. I've never seen merchandise for them, I've never heard anyone say anything about team Gale or Peeta in real life, and I've never seen it on other Hunger Games sites. Though I admit I don't really frequent those.
You obviously don't watch the fans that go out when the actors/actresses speak and have interviews and what not, there are TONS of signs.
There have been some on gaia as well.
I'm also on Tumblr, and I see it there all the time under the tags, and sadly on my dash.
So I've seen enough of it, and I guess I'm just out in THG community on other places more, so I see more of it.
Nah, I don't follow media news. I hate bullshit like that, so unless someone really big kicked the bucket, I don't know about it. I try to stay away from fan crazes too, they can get really insane, but even in the stuff I have seen for it, I didn't see any team stuff. Maybe it's just not really prevalent in my area. Generally, in my city we don't get a lot of the crazy hoards going overboard, so maybe it's more regional to the larger, more media based cities.