Bronze vs. Silver vs. Gold Championships

[TinyDancer109]

Hi all,

I tried searching for this topic in previous threads and came up unsuccessful so i apologize if the topic has already been discussed. Admittedly i had trouble figuring out key words for searching...


I dance mostly pro/am Amer. style FYI, and i just began silver level recently, planning my first (silver level) comp in a few months. In the bronze championships i have participated in, they were always 3-dance championships as follows:
rhythm: ch/r/esw
smooth: w/t/f

Now that I am moving on to silver, I am curious if the championships will continue to be 3-dance, or become 4-dance... ?? I would have presumed 4-dance but i thought i recalled seeing only 3-dance silver champs in the program at my last comp. This would be strange to me, considering gold champs usually are 5-dance (in rhythm?), i believe? although i could be mistaken.... also, does whether its pro/am or am/am make a difference??

Any help clearing up this confusion would be greatly appreciated. Obviously i am mostly interested in Amer. style but international style info is also appreciated, although im not sure it makes a difference.

thanks :)

[Josh]

TD, it depends entirely on the comp. As one example, the Heritage Classic's scholarships are 3 dances in all styles in bronze and silver, and then jumps to all dances in open. At the other end of the spectrum, the Atlanta Open, however, has all 5 (or 4 for smooth) dances even in bronze. Some comps are in between--3 dances in bronze, 4 in silver, and all dances in open. So it depends on the comp.

[JANATHOME]

Right, we dance American Smooth and Josh is correct that it really depends on each competition. What we have seen is that the Vwaltz is dropped to make it a 3 dance at some competitions.

What we do is that we work the 4 dances equally so there is no concern or have to put in mad dash work if a competition changes up the dances.

[TinyDancer109]

Understood, Thanks very much for the clarification! :)

[3wishes]

Bingo here too. Danced Am. Smooth for several years in Silver and it really depended on the competition (organizer). Just read the entry forms carefully. We had developed the 4 smooth dances equally. It seemed Am. Smooth, VWaltz was consistently the one dance that either was in or not for a competition.