[1] The Athlete Role Models for the Youth Olympics curling competition were Eve Muirhead of Great Britain and Uli Kapp of Germany.

The sixteen qualified teams competed in two divisions of round robin play.

The purpose of mixed-NOCs in mixed doubles was to encourage an international sense of community.

The resulting 32 teams played a single knockout round to determine the winner.

Qualified teams in bold ^1 The North American and South American teams are qualified automatically by virtue of their affiliation with the World Curling Federation, since the number of qualification spots equals the number of nations affiliated with the WCF.