Ropz

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ropz
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Current team
Team FaZe Clan
Role
  • Rifler
  • Lurker
Game Counter-Strike 2
Personal information
NameRobin Kool
Born (1999-12-22) 22 December 1999 (age 24)
NationalityEstonian
Career information
Playing career2015–present
Team history
2017–2021 mousesports
2022–present FaZe Clan
Career highlights and awards
Twitch information
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Followers288k

Last updated: October 22, 2023

Robin Kool (born 22 December 1999), better known as ropz, is an Estonian professional Counter-Strike 2 player for FaZe Clan. Kool has played in eight Majors [1] [2] and won the PGL Major Antwerp 2022. [3]

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Early and personal life

Kool was born on 22 December 1999. [4] He grew up in Jõgeva, Estonia.

Career

Before Kool joined mousesports, he played Call of Duty for Team Horizon; he played as a sniper. [5] Kool joined mousesports around April 2017 and has 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). [6] [7] [8] [9] Kool earned back-to-back top 10 spots on the list in 2019 and 2020. [10]

After playing almost five years with mousesports, Kool joined FaZe Clan in January 2022. [10] 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. [11] This was followed by Faze and ropz winning second consecutive title at ESL Pro League Season 15 and ropz being named the tournament MVP. [12] [13]

Notable tournament results

Grand finals

Bold denotes a CS:GO Major

YearPlaceTournamentTeamWinning scoreOpponentPrize moneyAwardsRef
2022
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1st
PGL Major Antwerp 2022 FaZe Clan 2–0 Natus Vincere $500,000.00 [3]
2023
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1st
Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023 FaZe Clan 2–1 Complexity Gaming $100,000.00Circle-icons-trophy.svg DHL MVP [14] [15]
2023
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1st
ESL Pro League Season 17 FaZe Clan 3–1 Cloud9 $200,000.00Circle-icons-trophy.svg HLTV MVP [16]
2022
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1st
Intel Extreme Masters XVII – Cologne FaZe Clan 3–2 Natus Vincere $400,000.00 [17] [18]
2022
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1st
ESL Pro League Season 15 FaZe Clan 3–1 ENCE $190,000.00Circle-icons-trophy.svg HLTV MVP [19]
2022
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1st
Intel Extreme Masters XVI – Katowice FaZe Clan 3–0 G2 $400,000.00 [20]
2020
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1st
Ice Challenge 2020 mousesports 3–1 Natus Vincere $125,000.00 [21]
2019
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1st
ESL Pro League Season 10 mousesports 3–0 fnatic $250,000.00Circle-icons-trophy.svg HLTV MVP [22] [23]
2019
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1st
CS:GO Asia Championships 2019 mousesports 2–0 ENCE $250,000.00
2018
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1st
ESL One New York 2018 mousesports 3–2 Team Liquid $125,000.00 [24]
2022
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2nd
Roobet Cup FaZe Clan 1–2BIG$50,000.00 [25]
2018
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2nd
ESL One Belo Horizonte 2018 mousesports 2–3 FaZe Clan $40,000.00

Majors participation

Ever since joining Mousesports in 2017, ropz has only missed out 1 Major in 2019.

#TournamentDateTeamResult
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–May 21, 2023 FaZe Clan 5th – 8th

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