Before what they are now, at least. I guess it's not impossible they had something like them... but the Judges weren't as tangible to people then as they are here.
* reaching over and picking up one of the sketches, looking at the details once more. *
The person I-- remembered... didn't think much of gods or magic. Or the outsiders who put stock in stuff like that. It was all just superstition to him. ...he probably wouldn't have thought that way if the Games we know were part of his life.