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Current team | |
Team | Team Vitality |
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Game | Counter-Strike 2 |
Personal information | |
Name | Robin Kool |
Born | 22 December 1999 |
Nationality | Estonian |
Career information | |
Playing career | 2015–present |
Team history | |
2017–2021 | mousesports |
2022–2024 | FaZe Clan |
2025–present | Team Vitality |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Twitch information | |
Channel | |
Followers | 297 thousand |
Last updated: June 30, 2025 |
Robin Kool (born 22 December 1999), better known as ropz, is an Estonian professional Counter-Strike 2 player for Team Vitality. Kool has played in eleven Majors, [1] [2] winning the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 [3] and the Blast Austin Major 2025, as well as two ESL Grand Slams.
Kool was born on 22 December 1999. [4] He grew up in Jõgeva, Estonia. His father committed suicide when Kool was younger. [5]
Before Kool joined mousesports, he played Call of Duty for Team Horizon; he played as a sniper. [6] 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 (Respectively #19, #10, #7 and #18). [7] [8] [9] [10] Kool earned back-to-back top 10 spots on the list in 2019 and 2020. [11]
After playing almost five years with mousesports, Kool joined FaZe Clan in January 2022. [11] 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. [12] This was followed by Faze and ropz winning second consecutive title at ESL Pro League Season 15 and ropz being named the tournament MVP. [13] [14] Faze also won IEM Cologne and ESL Pro League Season 17, completing a Grand Slam – 4th time in history for any team to achieve this. [15]
Ropz left FaZe Clan on January 1st 2025, [16] and on January 10th, he signed with Vitality. [17] Just 30 days after the joining Vitality, Ropz won IEM Katowice 2025, Ropz's second career IEM Katowice win. [18] With Team Vitality, he would go on to win ESL Pro League Season 21, [19] BLAST Open Lisbon 2025, [20] 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. [21] They continued to win BLAST Rivals Season 1, having been unbeaten in 25 LAN matches, second-highest win streak in CS history. [22] [23] [24] They lost the win streak during Austin Major against Legacy in a BO1 on Inferno.
Bold denotes a CS Major .
Year | Place | Tournament | Team | Winning score | Opponent | Prize money | Awards | Ref |
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2025 | ![]() | Blast Austin Major 2025 | Vitality | 2–1 | The MongolZ | $500,000.00 | [25] | |
2025 | ![]() | IEM Dallas 2025 | Vitality | 3–0 | Mouz | $125,000.00 | [26] | |
2025 | ![]() | BLAST Rivals 2025 Season 1 | Vitality | 3–2 | Team Falcons | $125,000.00 | [27] | |
2025 | ![]() | IEM Melbourne 2025 | Vitality | 3–2 | Team Falcons | $125,000.00 | [21] | |
2025 | ![]() | BLAST Open Lisbon 2025 | Vitality | 3–2 | Mouz | $150,000.00 | [20] | |
2025 | ![]() | ESL Pro League Season 21 | Vitality | 3–0 | Mouz | $100,000.00 | ![]() | [19] |
2025 | ![]() | IEM Katowice 2025 | Vitality | 3–0 | Spirit | $500,000.00 | [28] [18] | |
2022 | ![]() | PGL Major Antwerp 2022 | FaZe Clan | 2–0 | Natus Vincere | $500,000.00 | [3] | |
2024 | ![]() | IEM Chengdu 2024 | FaZe Clan | 2–0 | Mouz | $100,000.00 | [29] | |
2023 | ![]() | CS Asia Championships 2023 | FaZe Clan | 2–0 | Mouz | $250,000.00 | ![]() | [30] |
2023 | ![]() | Thunderpick World Championship 2023 | FaZe Clan | 2–0 | Virtus.pro | $250,000.00 | ![]() | [31] [32] |
2023 | ![]() | Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023 | FaZe Clan | 2–1 | Complexity Gaming | $100,000.00 | ![]() | [33] [34] |
2023 | ![]() | ESL Pro League Season 17 | FaZe Clan | 3–1 | Cloud9 | $200,000.00 | ![]() | [35] |
2022 | ![]() | Intel Extreme Masters XVII – Cologne | FaZe Clan | 3–2 | Natus Vincere | $400,000.00 | [36] [37] | |
2022 | ![]() | ESL Pro League Season 15 | FaZe Clan | 3–1 | ENCE | $190,000.00 | ![]() | [38] |
2022 | ![]() | Intel Extreme Masters XVI – Katowice | FaZe Clan | 3–0 | G2 | $400,000.00 | [39] | |
2020 | ![]() | Ice Challenge 2020 | mousesports | 3–1 | Natus Vincere | $125,000.00 | [40] | |
2019 | ![]() | ESL Pro League Season 10 | mousesports | 3–0 | fnatic | $250,000.00 | ![]() | [41] [42] |
2019 | ![]() | CS:GO Asia Championships 2019 | mousesports | 2–0 | ENCE | $250,000.00 | [43] | |
2018 | ![]() | ESL One New York 2018 | mousesports | 3–2 | Team Liquid | $125,000.00 | [44] | |
2018 | ![]() | V4 Future Sports Festival 2018 | mousesports | 2–1 | Virtus.pro | $238,000.00 | [45] | |
2018 | ![]() | StarSeries i-League Season 4 | mousesports | 2–1 | Natus Vincere | $130,000.00 | [46] | |
2017 | ![]() | ESG Tour Mykonos 2017 | mousesports | 3–2 | Team Liquid | $117,500.00 | [47] | |
2024 | ![]() | Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 | FaZe Clan | 1–2 | Spirit | $170,000.00 | [48] | |
2024 | ![]() | PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 | FaZe Clan | 1–2 | Natus Vincere | $170,000.00 | [49] | |
2024 | ![]() | IEM Katowice 2024 | FaZe Clan | 0–3 | Spirit | $180,000.00 | [50] | |
2023 | ![]() | BLAST Premier World Final 2023 | FaZe Clan | 0–2 | Vitality | $250,000.00 | [51] | |
2023 | ![]() | BLAST Premier Fall Final 2023 | FaZe Clan | 0–2 | Vitality | $85,000.00 | [52] | |
2022 | ![]() | BLAST Premier Fall Final 2022 | FaZe Clan | 1–2 | Heroic | $85,000.00 | [53] | |
2022 | ![]() | Roobet Cup | FaZe Clan | 1–2 | BIG | $50,000.00 | [54] | |
2020 | ![]() | ESL Pro League Season 11 Europe | mousesports | 2–3 | fnatic | $65,000.00 | [55] | |
2019 | ![]() | EPICENTER 2019 | mousesports | 1–2 | Vitality | $120,000.00 | [56] | |
2018 | ![]() | ESL One Belo Horizonte 2018 | mousesports | 2–3 | FaZe Clan | $40,000.00 | [57] |
Ever since joining Mousesports in 2017, ropz has only missed out 1 Major in 2019.
# | Tournament | Date | Team | Result |
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1 | PGL Major: Kraków 2017 | July 16–23, 2017 | mousesports | 12th – 14th |
2 | ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 | January 19–28, 2018 | mousesports | 5th – 8th |
3 | FACEIT Major: London 2018 | September 12–23, 2018 | mousesports | 15th – 16th |
– | IEM Katowice Major 2019 | February 20 – March 3, 2019 | mousesports | DNQ |
4 | StarLadder Major: Berlin 2019 | August 28 – September 8, 2019 | mousesports | 9th – 11th |
5 | PGL Major Stockholm 2021 | October 26 – November 7, 2021 | mousesports | 12th – 14th |
6 | PGL Major Antwerp 2022 | May 9–22, 2022 | FaZe Clan | 1st |
7 | IEM Rio Major 2022 | October 31 – November 13, 2022 | FaZe Clan | 15th – 16th |
8 | BLAST Paris Major 2023 | May 8–21, 2023 | FaZe Clan | 5th – 8th |
9 | PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 | Mar 17–31, 2024 | FaZe Clan | 2nd |
10 | Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 | Nov 30 – Dec 15, 2024 | FaZe Clan | 2nd |
11 | BLAST Austin Major 2025 | June 2–22, 2025 | Vitality | 1st |