ropz

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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Kool in 2023
Current team
Team	FaZe Clan
Role	Rifler Lurker
Game	Counter-Strike 2
Personal information
Name	Robin Kool
Born	(1999-12-22) 22 December 1999 (age 24)
Nationality	Estonian
Career information
Playing career	2015–present
Team history
2016	OnlineBOTS
2016	AWTR
2017–2021	mousesports
2022–present	FaZe Clan
Career highlights and awards
CS:GO Major champion (Antwerp 2022) IEM Grand Slam champion (Season 4) 6x HLTV Top 20 Player of the Year (2018–2023) 3x HLTV MVP
Twitch information
Channel	ropz
Followers	288k
Last updated: October 22, 2023

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

Year	Place	Tournament	Team	Winning score	Opponent	Prize money	Awards	Ref
2022	1st	PGL Major Antwerp 2022	FaZe Clan	2–0	Natus Vincere	$500,000.00		^[3]
2023	1st	Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023	FaZe Clan	2–1	Complexity Gaming	$100,000.00	DHL MVP	^[14]^[15]
2023	1st	ESL Pro League Season 17	FaZe Clan	3–1	Cloud9	$200,000.00	HLTV MVP	^[16]
2022	1st	Intel Extreme Masters XVII – Cologne	FaZe Clan	3–2	Natus Vincere	$400,000.00		^[17]^[18]
2022	1st	ESL Pro League Season 15	FaZe Clan	3–1	ENCE	$190,000.00	HLTV MVP	^[19]
2022	1st	Intel Extreme Masters XVI – Katowice	FaZe Clan	3–0	G2	$400,000.00		^[20]
2020	1st	Ice Challenge 2020	mousesports	3–1	Natus Vincere	$125,000.00		^[21]
2019	1st	ESL Pro League Season 10	mousesports	3–0	fnatic	$250,000.00	HLTV MVP	^[22] ^[23]
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		^[24]
2022	2nd	Roobet Cup	FaZe Clan	1–2	BIG	$50,000.00		^[25]
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

References

1. "Robin 'ropz' Kool". HLTV.org. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
2. "The most interesting CS:GO stats from ESL Pro League Season 17". 31 March 2023.
3. "PGL Antwerp 2022 Champions!". counter-strike.net. 23 May 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
4. Biazzi, Leonardo (20 January 2019). "Twelve top CS:GO players who are younger than the franchise itself". Dot Esports. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
5. "Biography of CS:GO Player ropz – Get The Full Story". emanager.gg. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
6. "Robin 'ropz' Kool's CS:GO Player Profile – Trophies". HLTV.org.
7. "Top 20 players of 2018: ropz (19)". HLTV.org. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
8. "Top 20 players of 2019: ropz (10)". HLTV.org. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
9. "Top 20 players of 2020: ropz (7)". HLTV.org. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
10. Robertson, Scott (3 January 2022). "FaZe Clan confirms ropz signing". Dot Esports. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
11. "Ropz Talks About All the CS:GO Offers He Received Before Joining FaZe". afkgaming.com. 8 April 2022.
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13. "ropz named ESL Pro League Season 15 MVP". csgo.com. 11 April 2022.
14. "FaZe Clan Wins The First Big 'Counter-Strike 2' LAN At IEM Sydney". Forbes. 22 October 2023.
15. "DHL MVP - ESL Pro Tour". pro.eslgaming.com. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
16. "Ropz wins an MVP in ESL Pro League for third time". Fragster.com. 28 March 2023.
17. Amos, Andrew (18 July 2022). "FaZe Clan win IEM Cologne 2022: Full recap and results". Dexerto.
18. "Record Breaking Event Concluded as FaZe Clan were Crowned Intel® Extreme Masters Cologne 2022 Champions". ESL Gaming. 19 July 2022.
19. "ESL Pro League Season 15 concludes as FaZe Clan beats ENCE Esports in the Grand Finals". ESL Gaming. 13 April 2022.
20. "Serral and FaZe Clan Secure Intel® Extreme Masters Katowice 2022 Champion Titles". ESL Gaming. 4 March 2022.
21. "CS:GO: Mousesports Defeat Natus Vincere to Win ICE Challenge 2020". ESTNN. 6 February 2020.
22. Zachary (10 December 2019). "Mousesports Win ESL Pro League Season 10!". Gamezo.
23. Biazzi, Leonardo (8 December 2019). "Mousesports sweep Fnatic to win ESL Pro League season 10 grand finals". Dot Esports. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
24. O’Keefe, David (1 October 2018). "With ESL One New York over, we look ahead to the rest of CS:GO for 2018". Red Bull. from the original on 11 August 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
25. FIELD LEVEL MEDIA (30 June 2022). "BIG edges FaZe Clan to win Roobet Cup". Reuters.