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]
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.
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]
Pool standing procedure
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]