# Ropz

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 ten Majors and won the PGL Major Antwerp 2022.

## Early and personal life

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

## 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 (Respectively #19, #10, #7 and #18). 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 second consecutive title at ESL Pro League Season 15 and ropz being named the tournament MVP.
Ropz left Faze on January 1st 2025, and on January 10th, he signed with Vitality. Just 30 days after the joining Vitality, Ropz won IEM Katowice 2025, which is Ropz`s second career IEM katowice

## Notable tournament results
### Grand finals

Bold denotes a CS:GO Major
| Year | Place | Tournament | Team | Winning score | Opponent | Prize money | Awards | Ref |
| 2025 | 1st | ESL Pro League Season 21 | Vitality | 3–0 | Mouz | $100,000.00 | DHL MVP | |
| 2025 | 1st | IEM Katowice 2025 | Vitality | 3–0 | Spirit | $500,000.00 | | |
| 2022 | 1st | PGL Major Antwerp 2022 | FaZe Clan | 2–0 | Natus Vincere | $500,000.00 | | |
| 2023 | 1st | Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023 | FaZe Clan | 2–1 | Complexity Gaming | $100,000.00 | DHL MVP | |
| 2023 | 1st | ESL Pro League Season 17 | FaZe Clan | 3–1 | Cloud9 | $200,000.00 | HLTV MVP | |
| 2022 | 1st | Intel Extreme Masters XVII – Cologne | FaZe Clan | 3–2 | Natus Vincere | $400,000.00 | | |
| 2022 | 1st | ESL Pro League Season 15 | FaZe Clan | 3–1 | ENCE | $190,000.00 | HLTV MVP | |
| 2022 | 1st | Intel Extreme Masters XVI – Katowice | FaZe Clan | 3–0 | G2 | $400,000.00 | | |
| 2020 | 1st | Ice Challenge 2020 | mousesports | 3–1 | Natus Vincere | $125,000.00 | | |
| 2019 | 1st | ESL Pro League Season 10 | mousesports | 3–0 | fnatic | $250,000.00 | HLTV MVP | [28] [29] |
| 2019 | 1st | CS:GO Asia Championships 2019 | mousesports | 2–0 | ENCE | $250,000.00 | | |
| 2018 | 1st | ESL One New York 2018 | mousesports | 3–2 | Team Liquid | $125,000.00 | | |
| 2022 | 2nd | Roobet Cup | FaZe Clan | 1–2 | BIG | $50,000.00 | | |
| 2018 | 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.
| # | Tournament | Date | Team | Result |
| 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 |
| 9 | PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 | Mar 17–Mar 31, 2024 | FaZe Clan | 2nd |
| 10 | Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 | Nov 30–Dec 15, 2024 | FaZe Clan | 2nd |