
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 table tennis team of 5 players, which includes 2 veteran players and 3 new players, we need to select 3 players to be ranked as No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 for a team competition. The selection must ensure that among the 3 chosen players, there is at least 1 veteran player and among players No. 1 and No. 2, there is at least 1 new player. There are $\boxed{\text{number}}$ ways to arrange this (answer with a number).

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