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Pentathlon co-organiser Dave Dunn said,We’ve jumped up the number of scored events to 9 to try to encourage all the employees to play in something. With so many more people having joined Bungie, we felt we needed more opportunities for people to participate.This time around, the developers of the smash-hit [I]Halo[/I] series wanted to recognise Dota 2's leading role in the Action RTS genre by featuring it in this year's Pentathlon.In a statement, Bungie said,Spectate the gilded mediocrity of our DOTA tournament, along with expert color commentary provided by Tobi Wan from JoinDOTA.com.In conjunction with the event, joinDOTA will be providing coverage for the [B]grand fina[/B]l of the Dota 2 tournament, which will be played on 27th January 2012 after the Defense match at 20:00 CET.Four teams of Bungie employees will battle each other in a series of games and the winning team will walk away with a championship trophy.This year's Pentathlon, in its 12th edition, will also feature other famous game titles like Modern Warfare 3 and Forza 4, among others.Games will be streamed live on joinDOTA as well as on Bungie.net [B]Additional reporting by Mantis.[/B]