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 eleven Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships, Majors, winning the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 and the Blast Austin Major 2025, as well as two ESL Grand Slams. 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, 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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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HLTV
HLTV, formerly an initialism of Half-Life Television, is a news website and forum which covers professional ''Counter-Strike 2'' esports news, tournaments and statistics. It is one of the leading websites within the ''Counter-Strike'' community with over 4 million unique visitors each month. In February 2020, the site was acquired by the sports betting group Better Collective. History HLTV was founded in 2002 by Martin "Martin" Rosenbæk and Per "Nomad" Lambæk. It was initially created to host recordings of ''Counter-Strike (video game), Counter-Strike 1.6'' matches, although it grew to include ''Counter-Strike'' and ''Half-Life (series), Half-Life'' news. HLTV started storing GOTV demos for ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' when they were introduced in 2012. It has since evolved to include news, statistics, and analysis for the professional esports scene of ''Global Offensive''. Since late 2015, HLTV ranks the teams based on their own rating system. HLTV have awarded ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Team Vitality
Team Vitality, or simply Vitality, is a French esport club founded in 2013 by Fabien "Neo" Devide, Nicolas Maurer, Corentin "Gotaga" Houssein, and Kevin "BrokyBrawks" Georges. Team Vitality has teams in eleven PC/console esports titles (''League of Legends'', ''Valorant'', ''Counter-Strike 2'', ''Rocket League'', ''EA FC'', ''StarCraft II'', ''Tekken'', '' Rennsport'', ''Street Fighter 6'', ''Call of Duty Warzone'' and ''Teamfight Tactics''), with several professional teams and content creators from across Europe and South Korea. Vitality also has teams in four mobile esports titles ('' Mobile Legends: Bang Bang'', ''Honor of Kings'', '' Free Fire'' and '' PUBG Mobile'') under the name "Bigetron by Vitality" after they acquired the Indonesian organization Bigetron Esports in 2025. The organization has previously fielded teams in numerous other titles, including ''Call of Duty'', ''Call of Duty Mobile'', ''Fortnite'', ''Rainbow Six: Siege'', ''PUBG'', '' H1Z1'', ''Clash R ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Twistzz
Russel David Kevin Van Dulken (born November 14, 1999), better known as Twistzz, is a Canadian professional ''Counter-Strike 2'' player for Team Liquid. He has previously played for top teams such as Team SoloMid, Misfits, and FaZe Clan. Twistzz was named the MVP of ESL One New York 2018 and IEM Sydney 2019 by HLTV. Early life Twistzz was born on November 14, 1999. He began playing video games with his dad and his first FPS game was Quake. After his father moved away, Twistzz started playing games for longer periods of time. Twistzz and his mom eventually moved in with her boyfriend and Twistzz started playing ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' (CS:GO). His mom's boyfriend started verbally abusing Twistzz which stalled his progress in CS:GO. In 2014 his mom chose to leave her boyfriend and Twistzz was able to make progress in CS:GO once again. His mom was supportive of him playing CS:GO because she was aware of where he was at all times. Career 2015 Twistzz joined his ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blast Austin Major 2025
The Blast.tv Austin Major 2025 was the third ''Counter-Strike 2'' Major Championship and twenty-second ''Counter-Strike'' Major overall. It was being held in Austin, Texas, United States from June 3 to June 22, 2025, and it was the second Major hosted by BLAST, after Paris 2023. The tournament was held at the Moody Center, on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, and was the first Major to feature 32 teams, involving directly-invited teams and teams from regional qualifiers. It featured a prize pool of . Team Vitality were crowned champions after a 2–1 victory over The MongolZ, their second title since Paris 2023. Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut was named the tournament's MVP, receiving his second such award and becoming the third player to be awarded MVP in multiple Majors after also receiving it at the Paris Major. Background ''Counter-Strike 2'' is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation. It is the fifth game in the ''Counter- ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jõgeva
Jõgeva is a small town in Estonia with a population of around 5000 people. It is the capital of Jõgeva Parish and Jõgeva County. History Jõgeva was first mentioned in 1599 as ''Jagiwa'' manor, being established only recently on the lands of the same named village by the orders of the Polish king. During the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish reign in Estonia (1582–1622) it was part of Laiuse starostwo, which became Laiuse fief during Swedish Empire, Swedish rule (1622–1721). In 1756, Jõgeva manor became the property of Gotthard Johann von Manteuffel (1690–1763) and remained in the family of von Manteuffel until 1919 when it was nationalized by the government. In 1876, a railway station, named Laisholm after the manor, was established near the village of Jõgeva (). The owner of Jõgeva manor, Ernst Gotthard von Manteuffel (1844–1922), started renting out land around the railway station in 1903. After that, the village grew quickly. On October 13, 1919, Jõge ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blast Premier
Blast Premier (stylized as BLAST Premier) is a ''Counter-Strike 2'' (CS2) (previously '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'') professional esports league launched in 2020. It is primarily based in two regions: North America and Europe. The Danish esports organisation, RFRSH Entertainment, announced the series as a successor to the BLAST Pro Series in 2019. The 2020 Blast Premier Series experienced disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the transition of all events except the Spring regular season online and reduced prize pools for many of the events. This disruption continued into the 2021 season, with both the Spring Groups and Spring Showdown occurring online. Format The Blast Premier series is divided into two seasons per year: Spring and Fall. Each season lasts around four months with 16 regular season partnered teams participating in the Group stage, ending with a season finals for the 6 top teams from the group stage. The season finals are also open to two ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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PGL Major Antwerp 2022
The PGL Major Antwerp 2022, also known as PGL Major 2022 or Antwerp 2022, was the seventeenth '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' (''CS:GO'') Major Championship. It was held in Antwerp, Belgium at the Sportpaleis from 9 to 22 May 2022. Twenty-four teams participated, with most qualifying through regional tournaments. It featured a prize pool, half of the previous Major. It was the third Major hosted by the Romanian organization PGL, after PGL Major: Kraków 2017 and PGL Major Stockholm 2021. The Major would be won by FaZe Clan, the first international team in ''CS:GO'' history to win a Major. Background ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and Valve Corporation. It is the fourth game in the ''Counter-Strike'' series. In professional CS:GO, the Valve-sponsored Majors are the most prestigious tournaments. The defending Major Champions were Natus Vincere, who won their first Major at ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Team Spirit (esports)
Team Spirit is an international esports organization based in Belgrade. Founded in 2015, the organization currently has teams competing in ''Counter-Strike 2'', ''Dota 2'', ''Hearthstone'', '' Pubg Mobile'' and '' Mobile Legends: Bang Bang''. Their ''Dota 2'' squad won two iterations of The International (2021 and 2023), the former event in which the organisation received the largest single prize money payout in esports history at $18 million. In 2022, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the organization relocated from Moscow to Belgrade, Serbia. Divisions ''Chess'' In April 2025, the organization signed Grandmaster's Daniil Dubov and Vladislav Artemiev, who will represent Team Spirit during the Champions Chess Tour 2025 and 2025 Esports World Cup. ''Counter-Strike 2'' In February 2024, Team Spirit defeated FaZe Clan 3–0 in the grand finals of IEM Katowice 2024, giving them direct qualification for the year's IEM Cologne, Blast Premier World Final and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fnatic
Fnatic (pronounced "fanatic"; also stylised as fnatic or FNATIC) is a professional esports organisation headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Founded on 23 July 2004, it has players from around the world competing in several games. Fnatic's ''League of Legends'' team competes in the League of Legends EMEA Championship, ''League of Legends'' EMEA Championship (LEC) and is one of the most successful organisations in the league. The team won the first League of Legends World Championship, ''League of Legends'' World Championship in 2011, and it held the record for most LEC titles from 2011 to 2020. Fnatic's ''Counter-Strike'' team, which has traditionally been located in Sweden, won the first ever Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships, ''CS:GO'' Major in Dreamhack Winter 2013, 2013 and two more between 2013 and 2015. After a series of poor results dating back to the start of 2021, Fnatic made a move towards an international roster for the first time since 2013. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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MOUZ
Mouz (stylized as MOUZ), formerly mousesports, is a professional esports organisation based in Germany. It fields teams in several games but is particularly known for its '' CS2'' team. MOUZ was one of the founding members of the G7 Teams. History Mousesports was formed in 2002 in Berlin, Germany, as a ''Counter-Strike'' team. The team began to compete in small tournaments, which gradually lead to their progression in larger ones, as well. By 2006, when G7 Teams was created, mousesports was one of the greatest gaming organisations in Europe, consisting of ''Counter-Strike'', ''Warcraft III'', '' Quake 4'', Battlefield 1942 and ''Unreal Tournament'' divisions. On 13 May 2007, mousesports announced that it had acquired Nihilum, the officially recognised premiere worldwide ''World of Warcraft'' organisation, with Nihilum recognised as a subsidiary of mousesports. The guild was remade into a community called "Nihilum: mousesports MMO". Nihilum was mousesports' consistently stro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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G2 Esports
G2 Esports (or simply G2) is a European esports organization headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with players competing in ''League of Legends'', ''Valorant'', ''Counter-Strike 2'', ''Hearthstone (video game), Hearthstone'', ''Rocket League'', ''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Siege'', Fortnite, and ''iRacing''. G2 also opperate the Minnesota Rokkr, Minnesota RØKKR in the Call of Duty League and G2 Football Club in Kings League#Kings League Germany, Kings League Germany. The organization was founded in Spain on 24 February 2014 as Gamers2 by former ''League of Legends'' pro Carlos "ocelote" Rodríguez Santiago and investor Jens Hilgers. The organization rebranded as G2 Esports on 15 October 2015. G2's ''League of Legends'' team competes in the League of Legends EMEA Championship, ''League of Legends'' EMEA Championship (LEC), the highest level of competitive ''League of Legends'' in Europe. The team has won sixteen domestic titles in Europe, the most of any organizati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |