ropz

Estonian CS2 star with three Major wins and three ESL Grand Slams.

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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 twelve Majors, winning the PGL Major Antwerp 2022, the Blast Austin Major 2025 and the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025. He has also won three ESL Grand Slams, more than any other CS player.

Quick Facts

Born: 22 December 1999
Nationality: Estonian
Team: Team Vitality
Role: Rifler, Lurker
Game: Counter-Strike 2

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Background

Kool was born on 22 December 1999. He grew up in Jõgeva, Estonia. His father committed suicide when Kool was younger. 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 (Respectively #19, #10, #7, #18 and #3). 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. Vitality's 2025 season was quieter after the mid-year player break, winning two tournaments from July to December. The first of these wins came in October with a successful run at ESL Pro League Season 22, defeating Team Falcons 3-0 in the grand final. Vitality won again at the last major tournament of the year at StarLadder Budapest Major 2025, where Ropz played against his former team, FaZe. With their win at the Budapest major, Ropz and Vitality become the first team to win both Majors in one calendar year.