Social Golfer 196x14x14 (14-14-14)

Synthetic pure Social Golfer scenario: 196 participants into 14 groups of 14 across 14 sessions, maximizing unique contacts.

196 people14 groups14 sessions300s limit8 CPUs
Scenario ID
internal.social-golfer-196x14x14.v1
Problem hash
sha256:ee8bf6ced63c1330ed42b27c975edce57f42cb7618ee44137868aa9fb4a2e16b

Comparator results

publication r18

Barasu-kun

Feasible
valid 5/5best 3,638median 3,680
Configurationbarasu-kun-0586a3f-sequential-v1

evidence r1 · eligible

GolfSoftware Play All

Unsupported
valid best median
Configurationgolfsoftware-play-all-live-55-second-v1

evidence r1 · unsupported

The live product exceeds its 100-participant limit and does not offer fourteen-person groups.

Good-Enough Golfers

Feasible
valid 5/5best 4,412median 4,449
Configurationgood-enough-golfers-4db20742-fixed-ga-v1

evidence r1 · eligible

GroupMixer

Feasible
valid 5/5best 750median 762
Configurationauto-extreme-8-defaults

evidence r2 · eligible

Gurobi

Unavailable
valid best median
Configurationunavailable-license

evidence r1 · unavailable

No runnable licensed environment and reproducible formulation are available for v1.

Halftime Team Pairings

Unsupported
valid best median
Configurationhalftime-team-pairings-live-sequential-last-six-v1

evidence r1 · unsupported

The live product exposes only fixed group sizes 2 through 5, which cannot represent this canonical geometry.

Hexaly

Unavailable
valid best median
Configurationunavailable-license

evidence r1 · unavailable

No runnable licensed environment and reproducible formulation are available for v1.

IIENSTITU Random Group Generator

Feasible
valid 5/5best 4,240median 4,240
Configurationiienstitu-live-avoid-history-seeded-v1

evidence r1 · eligible

Optimal Group Generator

Unsupported
valid best median
Configurationoptimal-group-generator-live-fixed-ga-sequential-v1

evidence r1 · unsupported

The live product enforces a maximum of 50 active members.

Google OR-Tools CP-SAT

Error
valid 0/5best median
Configurationortools-cpsat-case-formulations-v1:pure-sgp-no-hint-v3

evidence r2 · eligible

Social Golfer Online

Unsupported
valid best median
Configurationsocial-golfer-online-beta-120-member-limit

evidence r1 · unsupported

The live hosted beta rejected member 121 with HTTP 422, so its 120-member limit cannot represent this 196-participant case.

Teach Arcade Group Maker

Feasible
valid 5/5best 4,251median 4,268
Configurationteach-arcade-live-roundrobin-sequential-history-v1

evidence r1 · eligible

TourneyCard Golf Randomizer

Unsupported
valid best median
Configurationtourneycard-group-size-limit-4

evidence r1 · unsupported

Live TourneyCard 2.0.4 supports group sizes 2 through 4; the canonical case requires groups of 14.

OR-Tools returned no candidate: 5 process errors; 5 attempts recorded std::bad_alloc; 4 were interrupted by the outer watchdog. These are errors, not timeout or infeasibility claims.

Measured attempts

Barasu-kun · attempt-1feasible
hosted observationcost 3,6805.719sRSS —
Barasu-kun · attempt-2feasible
hosted observationcost 3,6385.857sRSS —
Barasu-kun · attempt-3feasible
hosted observationcost 3,6926.546sRSS —
Barasu-kun · attempt-4feasible
hosted observationcost 3,6834.428sRSS —
Barasu-kun · attempt-5feasible
hosted observationcost 3,6706.468sRSS —
Good-Enough Golfers · attempt-1feasible
hosted observationcost 4,412231.501sRSS —
Good-Enough Golfers · attempt-2feasible
hosted observationcost 4,452276.26sRSS —
Good-Enough Golfers · attempt-3feasible
hosted observationcost 4,421267.54sRSS —
Good-Enough Golfers · attempt-4feasible
hosted observationcost 4,449278.279sRSS —
Good-Enough Golfers · attempt-5feasible
hosted observationcost 4,456273.551sRSS —
GroupMixer · seed-101feasible timeout
same-machine nativecost 758299.203s51 MiB
GroupMixer · seed-202feasible timeout
same-machine nativecost 794299.773s51 MiB
GroupMixer · seed-303feasible timeout
same-machine nativecost 762299.921s51 MiB
GroupMixer · seed-404feasible timeout
same-machine nativecost 750299.859s51 MiB
GroupMixer · seed-505feasible timeout
same-machine nativecost 779299.046s51 MiB
IIENSTITU Random Group Generator · seed-101feasible
hosted observationcost 4,2407.481sRSS —
IIENSTITU Random Group Generator · seed-202feasible
hosted observationcost 4,2408.825sRSS —
IIENSTITU Random Group Generator · seed-303feasible
hosted observationcost 4,2407.208sRSS —
IIENSTITU Random Group Generator · seed-404feasible
hosted observationcost 4,2406.959sRSS —
IIENSTITU Random Group Generator · seed-505feasible
hosted observationcost 4,24014.386sRSS —
Google OR-Tools CP-SAT · seed-101error
same-machine nativecost 305.018s6,144 MiB
Google OR-Tools CP-SAT · seed-202error
same-machine nativecost 305.056s6,193 MiB
Google OR-Tools CP-SAT · seed-303error
same-machine nativecost 305.067s6,244 MiB
Google OR-Tools CP-SAT · seed-404error
same-machine nativecost 305.016s6,142 MiB
Google OR-Tools CP-SAT · seed-505error
same-machine nativecost 244.588s6,071 MiB
Teach Arcade Group Maker · attempt-1feasible
hosted observationcost 4,2575.415sRSS —
Teach Arcade Group Maker · attempt-2feasible
hosted observationcost 4,3036.273sRSS —
Teach Arcade Group Maker · attempt-3feasible
hosted observationcost 4,2755.805sRSS —
Teach Arcade Group Maker · attempt-4feasible
hosted observationcost 4,2516.721sRSS —
Teach Arcade Group Maker · attempt-5feasible
hosted observationcost 4,2685.867sRSS —

Pair-frequency distribution

GroupMixer · seed-404

Number of participant pairs by meeting frequency
MeetingsParticipant pairs
116757
2179
350
434
525
622
75
83
103
117
121
Unique contacts
17,086
Repeat excess
750
Repeated pairs
329
Worst pair count
12
Min contacts / person
115
Mean contacts / person
174.35

Evidence and reproduction

gm-scenarios materialize internal.social-golfer-196x14x14.v1 --pretty --output case.json