Hi, I’mKhaizer.

It started with one PC and a stack of game CDs. We got our first computer in 2007, when I was five. To this day I do not really know why we bought it. Probably for my father's work. Then he started coming home with games, so I think we all know how that turned out Hahahaha.

GTA San Andreas. Vice City. Tomb Raider. Transformers. Prototype. X-Men. One disc at a time, year after year, the shelf kept growing.

My father is the first gamer in our house. Before me, there was him. He was the one playing first, and I would sit beside him and watch, waiting for my turn, until the turns started being mine too. I caught it from him. Everything on this page traces back to that.

So thank you. Some of the best memories I have came out of that computer and the games you kept bringing home, and none of what I am building now would exist without them.

My developer era started with FiveM, GTA roleplay. I started playing around 2018 or 2019, pulled in by a YouTuber I used to watch, him and his friends causing all kinds of chaos in there Hahahaha. I stayed for years because I love the kind of game where you have to grind and actually talk to people. A year in, I had met half the server, and a few of them became close friends.

So we decided to run our own FiveM server, and I was the developer. That was 2020, the pandemic year, and it was the first time I had built anything. I was painfully slow, because I was learning it while making it: documentation after documentation, and asking around in different Discord servers every time I got stuck. It took about five months.

That build taught me almost everything I know. And I am still thankful to the friend who backed those five months and trusted me with it. I hope we finally get to meet one day, the way we always said we would Hahahaha.

Player One was originally just the name of our FiveM server. Around 2023, if I remember right, it turned into a community. Then the community wanted tournaments, so I ran one, start to finish, by myself. Then I realized that if we wanted to run more than one at a time, across more games, I needed members.

Some of those members were my friends from college, my girlfriend, online friends I got to know through playing games, and volunteers in the community.

In less than a year we ran tournaments across Valorant, League of Legends, MLBB, Wild Rift, and Honor of Kings, some of them at the same time. We even picked up sponsors, a few of them from outside the country. For something that started as a simple gaming community, that still means a lot to me.

We went looking for computer shop partnerships too, and we got several of them. I talked a friend with a motorcycle into coming with me, and the two of us rode around from shop to shop just to pitch. Thank you for riding with me on that. I really appreciate the support.

Then 4th year hit, and I stopped the org's operations to focus on finishing college. I told myself I would come back to it once I had the time again.

The cafe partnerships stopped when the rest of it did. We signed them, then I went quiet to finish school, and that is the part I still feel worst about. So let this be on the record: we are coming back to the gaming cafes. When NXLVL starts building for partners, they go first, and whatever they need from the platform gets high priority, because they backed this when there was nothing yet to back.

To all of them, my girlfriend, my college friends, the online friends I met through games, every volunteer who put their hand up, and the gaming community that kept showing up: thank you for the support. None of this exists without the people who play.