{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.fiba-women-s-americup","code":"thing-q2534542","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q2534542/","name":"FIBA Women's AmeriCup","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"thing","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.ACT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"The FIBA Women's AmeriCup is a recurring international basketball championship for senior women's national teams from the Americas, organized by FIBA through its regional structure for the Americas.","purpose":"Enable an agent to identify the FIBA Women's AmeriCup, assess the authoritative state of its editions, and determine participation, progression and qualification consequences under the applicable rules.","scope":{"in":["Competition-series identity and continuity across historical names","Edition boundaries, hosts, venues and authoritative calendar changes","National-team admission, roster eligibility and participation status","Edition-specific draw, stages, advancement and classification rules","Official results, title attribution and onward qualification consequences","Authority, revisions and unresolved conflicts affecting competition claims"],"out":["The men's FIBA AmeriCup, youth championships and FIBA 3x3 AmeriCup","Complete models of FIBA, national federations, teams or individual players","Basketball's general rules and techniques beyond their application to an edition","Internal operation of regional qualifying competitions","World Cup and Olympic tournaments beyond qualification links from this competition","Venue infrastructure, broadcasting businesses and betting markets"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Identify the senior women's national-team continental basketball competition for the Americas; exclude men's, youth, club and 3x3 competitions.","Require continuity evidence when connecting historical names: FIBA identifies the former name as FIBA Americas Championship for Women. [FIBA competition overview](https://about.fiba.basketball/en/regions/americas/competitions/national-team-competitions)","Distinguish the enduring competition series from a dated edition, an individual game and a feeder championship.","Treat continental title allocation and onward qualification as separate outcomes whose relationship depends on the edition's competition cycle."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"competition-identity-and-continuity","name":"Competition identity and continuity","description":"Recognise the Women's AmeriCup across editions and naming changes while preserving its sporting category.","layers":[{"id":"sporting-identity","name":"Sporting identity","description":"Establish which continental championship a record describes.","findings":[{"id":"womens-national-team-championship","name":"Women's national-team championship","description":"Recognition requires agreement on the women's national-team category, Americas remit and basketball discipline.","questions":[{"text":"Does the official record identify the senior women's 5-on-5 continental competition rather than a youth, men's or 3x3 event?","id":"womens-national-team-championship-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which FIBA competition identifier supports linking this record to vr.tr.fiba-women-s-americup?","id":"womens-national-team-championship-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"historical-and-edition-boundaries","name":"Historical and edition boundaries","description":"Separate series continuity from the identity of each staging.","findings":[{"id":"name-and-edition-continuity","name":"Name and edition continuity","description":"Historical titles and edition numbering require documented continuity; 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this illustrates why entitlements need cycle-specific modelling. [FIBA qualification explanation](https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/fiba-womens-americup-2025/news/how-do-teams-from-the-americas-qualify-for-the-fiba-womens-basketball-world-cup-2026)","questions":[{"text":"For the edition being assessed, which finishing positions confer direct entry and which confer qualifying-tournament participation?","id":"distinct-qualification-entitlements-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which official rule resolves overlapping entitlements, destination-host status or a vacated place?","id":"distinct-qualification-entitlements-q02","kind":"action"},{"text":"Is a claimed World Cup or Olympic consequence documented for this particular cycle?","id":"distinct-qualification-entitlements-q03","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"competition-authority-and-evidence","name":"Competition authority and evidence","description":"Determine which records support Women's AmeriCup decisions and preserve unresolved 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