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I watched Vegarddd's dragonforce vids first in 2007, then I watched StepmaniaFreak's videos a lot and he linked a lot of the files he played to the ffr simfile database. I saw FFRTheGame and played for a couple of months and then later on when I found out how to work SM, I saw IzzySM's quads, and I started playing a bit after that. I was about to stop playing because I didn't have any packs at all. All of my simfiles came from the db here, and then Mariocamposo (a really cool guy on youtube who doesn't play anymore) linked me to a huge list of packs and I was like omg this is going to be awesome! He also showed me stepmaniaonline and so I played on stepmaniaonline all the time since. Then in summer of 2008 I saw thaor AAA st.scarhand, and I was mindblown and set a personal goal to AAA st.scarhand myself and be better than thaor overall, and I played for quite a few years trying to get better and better. Stargroup and a ton of other solo players started up a site called keybeatonline and that was my home while ffr was down and I dabbled around in solo for a while. I also saw nekogon's mendes AAA video and wanted to be better than him eventually but didn't have as much drive to be better than thaor, so I never really got good at solo. I then came back to ffr on my own in summer 2011, because I played nearly every pack that matters at least 10 times over and wanted new files to play. So I played every FFR file going for fc's, and then someone told me FFR is more about AAA's and linked me to standalone and velocity's engine.swf and so I AAA'ed as much as I can. Now I'm getting back into solo again because of ben's solo tourney and unreal playing solo.
I think that's everyone that has had a large influence on me xD

damn that's long
tl;dr: Vegarddd, StepmaniaFreak, IzzySM, Mariocamposo, Thaor, Stargroup and other solo players/keybeatonline, nekogon, ben's solo tourney and unreal.