2021-22 Contenders Optic · parallel

Red Wave

Print run: unnumbered
Serial numbered: no
Family: Wave

Where it was sold

not documented

Applies to

the full 100-card base set of 2021-22 Contenders Optic

Notes

tcdb states Total Cards "140" and renders NO serial token on any row at either scope (rows 1-5 blank; rows 101/101b/102/102b read "Franz Wagner AU" and "Franz Wagner AU, VAR"). (https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/341249/2021-22-Panini-Contenders-Optic---Red-Wave). SCOPE ESTABLISHED STRUCTURALLY, NOT BY NAME: tcdb gives every base-and-block parallel ONE sid, and its "Total Cards" header splits the ladder cleanly - Silver, 75th Anniversary, Blue Wave, Green Pulsar and Black Pandora SSP each state "100" and stop at card 100, while Red, Red Wave, Blue, Orange, Gold, Gold Wave, Gold Vinyl and the four Printing Plates each state "140" and render rows 101-140 and 101b-140b as well. That 100-versus-140 split reproduces cardboardconnection's and checklistcenter's two separate ladders exactly, and the per-row serial flags differ across the boundary under one set name (Blue is "SN99" on row 1 and "AU, SN49" on row 101; Red is unflagged on row 1 and "AU, SN99" on row 111), so the two scopes are genuinely different objects. Base ladder, cardboardconnection: "PARALLEL CARDS: 75th Anniversary, Red, Red Wave, Silver, Black Pandora SSP, Blue #/99, Orange #/49, Blue Wave #/45, Green Pulsar #/25, Gold #/10, Gold Wave #/10, Gold Vinyl 1/1, Printing Plates 1/1." (https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2021-22-panini-contenders-optic-basketball-nba-cards) ; checklistcenter: "Parallels: 75th Anniversary; Red; Red Wave; Silver; Black Pandora SSP; Blue #/99; Orange #/49; Blue Wave #/45; Green Pulsar #/25; Gold #/10; Gold Wave #/10; Gold Vinyl 1/1; Printing Plates 1/1" (https://www.checklistcenter.com/2021-22-panini-contenders-optic-basketball-card-checklist/). The two aggregators agree verbatim and may be ONE opinion; tcdb's per-row serial flags adjudicate independently and agree with both. gogts.net adds a third, partial reading: "Look for a variety of parallels including Silver, Red, 75th Anniversary, Blue (#'d /99), Orange (#'d /49), Green Pulsar (#'d /25), Black Pandora, Gold (#'d /10), and ONE OF ONE Gold Vinyl." (https://gogts.net/2021-22-panini-contenders-optic-nba-basketball-cards-checklist/). UNNUMBERED IS A POSITIVE FINDING, NOT A DEFAULT: the same tcdb renderer prints SN99 / SN49 / SN45 / SN25 / SN10 / SN1 on the sibling base parallels of this same release and prints nothing here, and both aggregators list this tier with no figure alongside tiers that carry one (EXTRACTION_SPEC 6 discriminative test). CHANNEL DECLINED ON PURPOSE (EXTRACTION_SPEC 2.3): channel=UNKNOWN with channel_basis EMPTY. The only channel evidence found for this product is the product-level hobby-box note ("Approx. $340USD Per Hobby Box", https://www.checklistcenter.com/2021-22-panini-contenders-optic-basketball-card-checklist/; "Hobby Configuration: 6 cards per pack, 1 pack per box, 20 boxes per case", https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2021-22-panini-contenders-optic-basketball-nba-cards). That note supports "the product ships in hobby boxes" and says nothing about an individual tier. It was allowed to carry channel=hobby / basis=from-note on the ordinary ladder, but it is NOT extended to the Wave, Pandora and Pulsar finishes: in the 2019-20 release of this same line the Wave finishes were a China/T-Mall exclusive (data/contendersoptic-bkb-2019-20 carries channel=china on base Gold Wave and Red Wave), and this season checklistcenter files Red Wave, Blue Wave #/45 and Gold Wave #/10 under a separate heading "Asia Parallels" for the Rookies set (https://www.checklistcenter.com/2021-22-panini-contenders-optic-basketball-card-checklist/). Writing hobby here would be the inference EXTRACTION_SPEC 1.5 forbids. See gap G-017.

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