
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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In a modified softball tournament setup, on Saturday, four teams, Team A, Team B, Team C, and Team D, play two initial matches: Team A vs. Team B and Team C vs. Team D. Then, on Sunday, a wild card match is played between the losing team of the first match and the winning team of the second match; concurrently, the other losing team from Saturday’s games plays a consolidation game against the losing team from the wild card match. Afterwards, the winner of Saturday’s first match and the winner of the wild card game play for first and second places, while the remaining teams play for third and fourth places. There are no ties. Determine the total number of possible ranking sequences of the teams from first to fourth place at the end of the tournament.

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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