Ropz


Robin Kool, better known as ropz, is an Estonian professional Counter-Strike 2 player for Team Vitality. Kool has played in twelve Majors, winning the PGL Major Antwerp 2022, the Blast Austin Major 2025 and the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025, as well as two ESL Grand Slams.
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Early and personal life

Kool was born on 22 December 1999. He grew up in JΓ΅geva, Estonia.
His father committed suicide when Kool was younger.

Career

Before Kool joined mousesports, he played Call of Duty for Team Horizon; he played as a sniper. Kool joined mousesports around April 2017 and obtained nine trophies while with the team. He was regarded as the MVP of the ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals and has consistently been in HLTV's top 20 list of players since 2018. Kool earned back-to-back top 10 spots on the list in 2019 and 2020.
After playing almost five years with mousesports, Kool joined FaZe Clan in January 2022. His switch turned out to be successful; they qualified to the BLAST Premier: Spring Finals and won the first LAN tournament of the year – IEM Katowice 2022. This was followed by Faze and ropz winning a second consecutive title at ESL Pro League Season 15 and ropz being named the tournament MVP. Faze also won IEM Cologne and ESL Pro League Season 17, completing an Intel Grand Slam – 4th time in history for any team to achieve this.
Ropz left FaZe Clan on January 1st, 2025, and on January 10th, he signed with Vitality. Just 30 days after the joining Vitality, Ropz won IEM Katowice 2025, Ropz's second career IEM Katowice win. With Team Vitality, he would go on to win ESL Pro League Season 21, BLAST Open Lisbon 2025, and IEM Melbourne 2025. With the win at Melbourne, ropz along with Team Vitality won the ESL Grand Slam Season 5, making ropz the second two-time ESL Grand Slam winner after Twistzz. They continued to win BLAST Rivals Season 1 and IEM Dallas 2025, having been undefeated in 30 LAN matches, which was the second-highest win streak in Counter-Strike history. The win streak ended when Vitality lost against Legacy in a BO1 on Inferno during the Austin Major.

Notable tournament results

Grand finals

Bold denotes a CS Major.
YearPlaceTournamentTeamWinning scoreOpponentPrize moneyAwardsRef
2025StarLadder Budapest Major 2025Vitality3–1FaZe Clan$500,000.00
2025ESL Pro League Season 22Vitality3–0Team Falcons$100,000.00
2025Blast Austin Major 2025Vitality2–1The MongolZ$500,000.00
2025IEM Dallas 2025Vitality3–0Mouz$125,000.00
2025BLAST Rivals 2025 Season 1Vitality3–2Team Falcons$125,000.00
2025IEM Melbourne 2025Vitality3–2Team Falcons$125,000.00
2025BLAST Open Lisbon 2025Vitality3–2Mouz$150,000.00
2025ESL Pro League Season 21Vitality3–0Mouz$100,000.00 DHL MVP
2025IEM Katowice 2025Vitality3–0Spirit$500,000.00
2022PGL Major Antwerp 2022FaZe Clan2–0Natus Vincere$500,000.00
2024IEM Chengdu 2024FaZe Clan2–0Mouz$100,000.00
2023CS Asia Championships 2023FaZe Clan2–0Mouz$250,000.00 HLTV MVP
2023Thunderpick World Championship 2023FaZe Clan2–0Virtus.pro$250,000.00 HLTV MVP
2023Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023FaZe Clan2–1Complexity Gaming$100,000.00 DHL MVP
2023ESL Pro League Season 17FaZe Clan3–1Cloud9$200,000.00 HLTV MVP
2022Intel Extreme Masters XVII – CologneFaZe Clan3–2Natus Vincere$400,000.00
2022ESL Pro League Season 15FaZe Clan3–1ENCE$190,000.00 HLTV MVP
2022Intel Extreme Masters XVI – KatowiceFaZe Clan3–0G2$400,000.00
2020Ice Challenge 2020mousesports3–1Natus Vincere$125,000.00
2019ESL Pro League Season 10mousesports3–0fnatic$250,000.00 HLTV MVP
2019CS:GO Asia Championships 2019mousesports2–0ENCE$250,000.00
2018ESL One New York 2018mousesports3–2Team Liquid$125,000.00
2018V4 Future Sports Festival 2018mousesports2–1Virtus.pro$238,000.00
2018StarSeries i-League Season 4mousesports2–1Natus Vincere$130,000.00
2017ESG Tour Mykonos 2017mousesports3–2Team Liquid$117,500.00
2025BLAST Open London 2025Team Vitality2–3G2$60,000.00
2024Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024FaZe Clan1–2Spirit$170,000.00
2024PGL Major Copenhagen 2024FaZe Clan1–2Natus Vincere$170,000.00
2024IEM Katowice 2024FaZe Clan0–3Spirit$180,000.00
2023BLAST Premier World Final 2023FaZe Clan0–2Vitality$250,000.00
2023BLAST Premier Fall Final 2023FaZe Clan0–2Vitality$85,000.00
2022BLAST Premier Fall Final 2022FaZe Clan1–2Heroic$85,000.00
2022Roobet CupFaZe Clan1–2BIG$50,000.00
2020ESL Pro League Season 11 Europemousesports2–3fnatic$65,000.00
2019EPICENTER 2019mousesports1–2Vitality$120,000.00
2018ESL One Belo Horizonte 2018mousesports2–3FaZe Clan$40,000.00

Majors participation

Ever since joining Mousesports in 2017, ropz has only missed out 1 Major in 2019.
#TournamentDateTeamResult
1PGL Major: KrakΓ³w 2017July 16–23, 2017mousesports12th – 14th
2ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018January 19–28, 2018mousesports5th – 8th
3FACEIT Major: London 2018September 12–23, 2018mousesports15th – 16th
–IEM Katowice Major 2019February 20 – March 3, 2019mousesportsDNQ
4StarLadder Major: Berlin 2019August 28 – September 8, 2019mousesports9th – 11th
5PGL Major Stockholm 2021October 26 – November 7, 2021mousesports12th – 14th
6PGL Major Antwerp 2022May 9–22, 2022FaZe Clan1st
7IEM Rio Major 2022October 31 – November 13, 2022FaZe Clan15th – 16th
8BLAST Paris Major 2023May 8–21, 2023FaZe Clan5th – 8th
9PGL Major Copenhagen 2024Mar 17–31, 2024FaZe Clan2nd
10Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024Nov 30 – Dec 15, 2024FaZe Clan2nd
11BLAST Austin Major 2025June 2–22, 2025Vitality1st
12StarLadder Budapest Major 2025November 24–December 14, 2025Vitality1st