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Ropz
Estonian esports player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Early and personal life
Kool was born on 22 December 1999.[4] He grew up in Jõgeva, Estonia. His father committed suicide when Kool was younger.[5]
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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.
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Notable tournament results
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Grand finals
Bold denotes a CS Major.
Majors participation
Ever since joining Mousesports in 2017, ropz has only missed out 1 Major in 2019.
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