Organizers use dance categories such as "Open Bronze", "Newcomer Silver", etc. These terms don't seem to make sense as Bronze level is a closed division with closed footwork, and continuity footwork is forbidden in Bronze. How can a dancer be a newcomer and a silver level dancer at the same time? What happened to Bronze I, II, III, IV, etc., in which each numeric division stood for each quarter of the syllabus.

Linda Dean (Adjudicator at the Emerald Ball)
"Bronze means that they are dancing in a division where you can do a routine, so it would be a routine in bronze dancing. In Final Bronze there are some steps that contain continuity-style footwork, so you could do some of those steps in your routine. Newcomers Silver refers to the fact that they are just now starting the Silver division in their training. So it's 2 different concepts. The Open Bronze doesn't refer to their footwork, if refers to fact that they can do a routine instead of school figures."