A total of 17 teams, each with eight players aged 15 and under, registered for the games, which were held at the cultural centre in Behchoko, from February 15-16.  This event was put on by the Tlicho Government Handgame Committee.  This is now the eighth year Behchoko has hosted a youth tournament.

The Hand Games were played years ago as a form of gambling among friends and different groups. Often the games were played to gamble for bullets, furs, dogs, toboggans, or stick matches. Today, however, the Hand Game is played in cultural centres, community carnivals and other events all over the Dene country as a friendly competition fostering community pride. The Hand Game is based on a simple concept of hiding and guessing of objects using elaborate hand signals and gestures to both find the object and hide the object (from the Dene Games website).