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.

Early and personal life

Kool was born on 22 December 1999. He grew up in Jõgeva, 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
2025Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stStarLadder Budapest Major 2025Vitality3–1FaZe Clan$500,000.00
2025Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stESL Pro League Season 22Vitality3–0Team Falcons$100,000.00
2025Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stBlast Austin Major 2025Vitality2–1The MongolZ$500,000.00
2025Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stIEM Dallas 2025Vitality3–0Mouz$125,000.00
2025Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stBLAST Rivals 2025 Season 1Vitality3–2Team Falcons$125,000.00
2025Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stIEM Melbourne 2025Vitality3–2Team Falcons$125,000.00
2025Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stBLAST Open Lisbon 2025Vitality3–2Mouz$150,000.00
2025Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stESL Pro League Season 21Vitality3–0Mouz$100,000.00Image:Circle-icons-trophy.svg|20px|link=|DHL MVP DHL MVP
2025Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stIEM Katowice 2025Vitality3–0Spirit$500,000.00
2022Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stPGL Major Antwerp 2022FaZe Clan2–0Natus Vincere$500,000.00
2024Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stIEM Chengdu 2024FaZe Clan2–0Mouz$100,000.00
2023Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stCS Asia Championships 2023FaZe Clan2–0Mouz$250,000.00Image:Circle-icons-trophy.svg|20px|link=|HLTV MVP HLTV MVP
2023Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stThunderpick World Championship 2023FaZe Clan2–0Virtus.pro$250,000.00Image:Circle-icons-trophy.svg|20px|link=|HLTV MVP HLTV MVP
2023Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stIntel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023FaZe Clan2–1Complexity Gaming$100,000.00Image:Circle-icons-trophy.svg|20px|link=|DHL MVP DHL MVP
2023Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stESL Pro League Season 17FaZe Clan3–1Cloud9$200,000.00Image:Circle-icons-trophy.svg|20px|link=|HLTV MVP HLTV MVP
2022Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stIntel Extreme Masters XVII – CologneFaZe Clan3–2Natus Vincere$400,000.00
2022Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stESL Pro League Season 15FaZe Clan3–1ENCE$190,000.00Image:Circle-icons-trophy.svg|20px|link=|HLTV MVP HLTV MVP
2022Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stIntel Extreme Masters XVI – KatowiceFaZe Clan3–0G2$400,000.00
2020Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stIce Challenge 2020mousesports3–1Natus Vincere$125,000.00
2019Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stESL Pro League Season 10mousesports3–0fnatic$250,000.00Image:Circle-icons-trophy.svg|20px|link=|HLTV MVP HLTV MVP
2019Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stCS:GO Asia Championships 2019mousesports2–0ENCE$250,000.00
2018Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stESL One New York 2018mousesports3–2Team Liquid$125,000.00
2018Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stV4 Future Sports Festival 2018mousesports2–1Virtus.pro$238,000.00
2018Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stStarSeries i-League Season 4mousesports2–1Natus Vincere$130,000.00
2017Image:Gold_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=1st place medal|1stESG Tour Mykonos 2017mousesports3–2Team Liquid$117,500.00
2025Image:Silver_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=2nd place medal|2ndBLAST Open London 2025Team Vitality2–3G2$60,000.00
2024Image:Silver_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=2nd place medal|2ndPerfect World Shanghai Major 2024FaZe Clan1–2Spirit$170,000.00
2024Image:Silver_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=2nd place medal|2ndPGL Major Copenhagen 2024FaZe Clan1–2Natus Vincere$170,000.00
2024Image:Silver_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=2nd place medal|2ndIEM Katowice 2024FaZe Clan0–3Spirit$180,000.00
2023Image:Silver_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=2nd place medal|2ndBLAST Premier World Final 2023FaZe Clan0–2Vitality$250,000.00
2023Image:Silver_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=2nd place medal|2ndBLAST Premier Fall Final 2023FaZe Clan0–2Vitality$85,000.00
2022Image:Silver_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=2nd place medal|2ndBLAST Premier Fall Final 2022FaZe Clan1–2Heroic$85,000.00
2022Image:Silver_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=2nd place medal|2ndRoobet CupFaZe Clan1–2BIG$50,000.00
2020Image:Silver_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=2nd place medal|2ndESL Pro League Season 11 Europemousesports2–3fnatic$65,000.00
2019Image:Silver_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=2nd place medal|2ndEPICENTER 2019mousesports1–2Vitality$120,000.00
2018Image:Silver_medal_icon.svg|center|link=|alt=2nd place medal|2ndESL One Belo Horizonte 2018mousesports2–3FaZe Clan$40,000.00