Yea, that was going to be my only point really. It's hard to measure your accomplishments and improvements without seeing actual 10th Planet instructors. It's not really about chasing belts.. I can test in the BJJ school here, but when I spend as much of my time with 10th planet stuff as I do, measuring improvement is important.
In my mind I thought at least rolling with an instructor in person would provide some advantages over getting ranked solely on technique vids and unknown levels of competition in random tournaments. I totally see the point about not promoting people you don't really "know". Thanks for the answers.