2018-19 Contenders · parallel

The Finals Ticket

Print run: /49
Serial numbered: yes
Family: Ticket

Where it was sold

not documented

Applies to

Notes

Print run stated by checklistcenter only; tcdb renders the subset (existence sourced) but its run was not probed on this tier. Existence sourced to tcdb: this sid states "Total Cards: 190" against the parent's 100 base rows, so it demonstrably extends into the excluded 101-145 block. The figure itself is checklistcenter's, under its "Rookie Ticket Auto Set" heading. Source calibration (section 3.3): checklistcenter was tested on 23 print runs that tcdb's own rendered flag tokens also answer - Playoff 199/SN199, Conference Finals 135/SN135, The Finals 99/SN99, Cracked Ice 25/SN25, Premium Gold 10/SN10, Championship 1/SN1, Printing Plates 1/SN1, Blue 49/SN49, Purple 25/SN25, Green blank/no token, Red blank/no token, Premium blank/no token, Rookie Ticket Playoff 65/SN65, Rookie Ticket Variation Playoff 35/SN35, Historic Rookie Playoff 49/SN49, Historic Rookie Premium blank/no token, Front Row Seat Cracked Ice 25/SN25, Front Row Seat Championship 1/SN1, Front Row Seat Retail blank/no token, Legendary Bronze 25/SN25, Dual Swatches Prime 10/SN10, Dual Swatches Tags 1/SN1, and the four Retail tiers blank/no token. 23 of 23 agreed. https://www.checklistcenter.com/2018-19-panini-contenders-basketball/ No channel is written for any parallel in this release. The only channel-bearing quote found is product-level - Steel City Collectibles renders "Look for Blaster Exclusive Parallels!" on the blaster box page - and it names no tier, so inheriting it onto a tier would be exactly the inference section 1.5 forbids. channel=UNKNOWN with an EMPTY channel_basis, per section 2.3 and migrations/003_parallels.sql. https://www.steelcitycollectibles.com/i/2018-19-panini-contenders-basketball-5ct-blaster-box Evidence: https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/194843/2018-19-Panini-Contenders-The-Finals-Ticket ; https://www.checklistcenter.com/2018-19-panini-contenders-basketball/ [CORRECTED 2026-09-17: scope_type was `block`; it is now `set`. `block` scope resolves against base_card_tiers (pipeline/load_pg.py builds parallel_block_scope from tier ids), and this release correctly has NO base_card_tiers.csv because its base run is not tiered - cards 101-145 are an autograph block OUTSIDE base_set_size=100, so they cannot be base-card tiers, which must tile the base numbering exactly. With no tiers to resolve against, every block row's scope_set_id was NULL, and migrations/003_parallels.sql's parallel_unique_in_scope index keys on (release_id, parallel_name, COALESCE(scope_set_id,'')) - so all six pairs of same-named tiers collided and the load was rejected. The two scope values are both real rows in this release's sets.csv (`Rookie Ticket Autographs` and `Rookie Ticket Variation Autographs`, both set_type=auto, 45 cards each), so set scope resolves them to distinct ids and is also the more accurate description: these are parallels OF NAMED SETS, not of numbered base blocks. No name, print run, scope value or evidence was changed - only the discriminator.]

Draft — sourced but not independently verified. How this catalogue is built