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This procedure is used to break ties in games in the championship round of the World Cup soccer tournament. Each team selects five players in a prescribed order. Each of these players takes a penalty kick, with a player from the first team followed by a player from the second team and so on, following the order of players specified. If the score is still tied at the end of the $10$ penalty kicks, this procedure is repeated. If the score is still tied after $20$ penalty kicks, a sudden-death shootout occurs, with the first team scoring an unanswered goal victorious.

  1. How many different scoring scenarios are possible if the game is settled in the first round of $10$ penalty kicks, where the round ends once it is impossible for a team to equal the number of goals scored by the other team?
  2. How many different scoring scenarios for the first and second groups of penalty kicks are possible if the game is settled in the second round of $10$ penalty kicks?
  3. How many scoring scenarios are possible for the full set of penalty kicks if the game is settled with no more than $10$ total additional kicks after the two rounds of five kicks for each team?

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