Empty Deconstruction: When Stage-1 Returns Nothing

When a cricket_asia pipeline's Stage-1 deconstruction returns empty — no title, source, summary, or information points — it signals a specific class of failure. Three causes are typical: (1) the input was never an article (paywall, login wall, or bad link); (2) the body loads via JavaScript and a basic scraper misses the core content; (3) the parser targets the wrong selector, dropping the main block. In all three cases, the upstream step must be re-verified — no amount of advanced Stage-2 or Stage-3 analysis can fill an empty source. An honest pipeline flags an empty output as a failure and stops rather than passing it downstream. The real problem here is not a lack of analysis but the absence of a source.