Competition: | Women's Junior Pan-American Volleyball Cup |
Gender: | women |
Continent: | Americas |
Year: | 2013 |
Host: | Cuba |
Dates: | March 18 – 23, 2013 |
Teams: | 8 |
Venues: | 1 |
Cities: | Havana |
Champions: | MEX |
Title Number: | 1 |
Mvp: | Alejandra Isiordia |
Last: | 2011 Women's Junior Pan-American Volleyball Cup |
Next: | 2015 Women's Junior Pan-American Volleyball Cup |
The 2013 Women's Junior Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the second edition of the bi-annual women's volleyball tournament, played by eight countries from March 18 – 23, 2013 in Havana, Cuba.[1]
This was the last qualifier to the 2013 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship for American teams,[2] Puerto Rico earned the last berth winning Pool B over hosts Cuba[3]
Teams who were able to participate in this tournament are those who took part at their respective continental junior championships, South America and NORCECA.[4] Puerto Rico entered after Argentina declined to participate and Guatemala and Nicaragua failed to apply.
width=33% | Pool A (Already Qualified Teams) | width=33% | Pool B (Non-Qualified Teams) |
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The competition format for the 2013 Junior Pan American Volleyball Cup divides the 8 participating teams in 2 groups of 4, a seeded group consisting of countries already qualified to the 2013 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship, and another group of non-qualified countries. Both groups will play a Round-Robyn round after which the best team from Group B will earn the last berth to the World Championship.
The best two teams from Group A will advance to the semifinals, the best two teams from Group B will play the quarterfinals against the worst two teams from Pool A. The worst two from Group B will play the classification matches from 5th to 8th.[5]
Match won 3–0: 5 points for the winner, 0 point for the loser
Match won 3–1: 4 points for the winner, 1 points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 3 points for the winner, 2 points for the loser
In case of tie, the teams were classified according to the following criteria:
points ratio and sets ratio[6]
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