Vintage

Where it was sold

Hobby

How we know: a source confirms presence in this channel.

Applies to

the full 100-card base set of 2016-17 Grand Reserve

Notes

FULL-ROW TOKEN SWEEP, never a sample (CAV-050): every rendered row's flag column was read and the DISTINCT token set recorded. This is the release's ONLY base-set parallel - tcdb's https://www.tcdb.com/Inserts.cfm/sid/152590/2016-17-Panini-Grand-Reserve?sort=2 renders a section headed "Parallel Sets (1)" containing exactly one row, "Vintage", sid 154893, and cardboardconnection's base-set block likewise names one parallel: "PARALLEL CARDS: Vintage." (https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2016-17-panini-grand-reserve-basketball). sid 154893 states "Total Cards: 100" and carries the full 100-card base roster. UNNUMBERED IS WRITTEN OFF A POSITIVE DISCRIMINATIVE TEST ON THREE RENDERERS, NOT OFF AN ABSENCE (CAV-042). The flag column on 154893 is empty on every rendered row on all three: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/154893/2016-17-Panini-Grand-Reserve-Vintage?sort=0 (84 rows), https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/154893/2016-17-Panini-Grand-Reserve-Vintage (81 rows) and https://www.tcdb.com/Gallery.cfm/sid/154893/2016-17-Panini-Grand-Reserve-Vintage?PageIndex=1&sort=0 (10 tiles); each was asked directly whether ANY row carries a token beginning SN or PR and each answered no. That absence alone is worth nothing - and on this sid it is demonstrably lossy, because 154893 also drops the RC token that the parent renders on card 1 Ben Simmons. What licenses the value is that THE SAME THREE RENDERERS emit serial tokens on this product's own sibling sid 154902 Cornerstones (AU, MEM, SN35/SN40/SN49/SN75/SN99) while emitting none on 154893 and none on the parent's 100 base rows: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/154902/2016-17-Panini-Grand-Reserve-Cornerstones?sort=0 , https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/154902/2016-17-Panini-Grand-Reserve-Cornerstones and https://www.tcdb.com/Gallery.cfm/sid/154902/2016-17-Panini-Grand-Reserve-Cornerstones?PageIndex=1&sort=0 . source_confidence is `single`: tcdb is the only source for the value. cardboardconnection names the tier but prints NO figure for it, and an editorial checklist omitting a figure is not a statement of fact (EXTRACTION_SPEC 2.1), so it is not a second source. See G-016. CHANNEL: hobby with basis `sourced-presence`, NOT exclusivity. The statement is PRODUCT-LEVEL - Panini's own blog says "each hobby box of 2017 Grand Reserve Basketball" (https://blog.paniniamerica.net/the-panini-america-quality-control-gallery-2016-17-grand-reserve-basketball/), cardboardconnection says "three hits per hobby box" and gives one single configuration, "8 cards per pack, 3 packs per box, 8 boxes per case" (https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2016-17-panini-grand-reserve-basketball), and blowoutbuzz gives one SRP for the same pack (https://blowoutbuzz.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/first-buzz-2016-17-panini-grand-reserve-basketball-cards/). No source consulted names a retail, blaster, mega or international SKU for this product, and no source claims exclusivity, so presence is the strongest claim the evidence supports and it is applied at product level rather than per tier. See G-010.