Robin Kool

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.

Early and personal life Kool was born on 22 December 1999. He grew up in Jõgeva, Estonia. His father committed suicide when Kool was younger.

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, #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. 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.

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. Ropz was given the HLTV award for being the 3rd best player of 2025 and being named the closer of the year.

Vitality began 2026 in similar form to 2025, winning four tournaments in the first four months of the year, taking first place at IEM Kraków 2026, PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026, BLAST Open Rotterdam 2026, and IEM Rio 2026. Ropz played in high form throughout these tournaments, winning his sixth MVP award at BLAST Open Rotterdam, securing the award with an exceptional grand finals performance. With Vitality's win at IEM Rio 2026, Ropz becomes the first and only player so far to have won three ESL Grand Slams.

Notable tournament results Grand finals Bold denotes a CS Major.

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