Local Champion in Georgia: Top 3 Questions Explained

Local Champion in Georgia is a title in the Mosey app for the friend everyone texts when they are passing through. It is earned in one place by doing three things: rating five spots, answering three Top 3 questions and making a list. Your opinion is never marked, so a harsh rating counts exactly as much as a kind one.

Below is the whole idea in plain terms, with Georgia's peaches, pecans and plate lunches in mind. It belongs to the Georgia food guide for every town, and the US food guides cover the other states.

Who is Local Champion in Georgia meant for?

For the person who already answers the question "where should we eat?" for half their family. The app puts the title like this: be a local champion for a place's food by rating places, naming your top 3 and building your list. Nothing in it asks you to be an expert. It asks you to pay attention in one town for a few weeks and leave some marks.

Once earned, the title shows on your profile and beside your name on a rating. You may also turn it into a picture to share, with your first name added if you wish.

How do you name your top 3 places and finish the three jobs?

Most people start with ratings, because they happen on their own. A week of ordinary eating gives you a coffee, a lunch, a pizza, a breakfast and a sweet, which is five. Next come three Top 3 questions, answered one on each visit whenever you have a minute. Last comes the list, which is the only job that takes thought, because a list needs a purpose.

None of the three has to be perfect. Each only has to be done once in the same place. People who treat it as a game tend to finish within a month, and people who treat it as homework tend to stall. Think of it as a note to your future self about where you ate well, with a certificate attached.

What do the Top 3 questions in Georgia look like?

Each question asks where the best place is for something, and you choose up to three and rank them. The first questions cover coffee, a restaurant and brunch; later ones cover pizza, burgers, pastries, date night and more. Number 1 is your favorite. Pecan pie, peach cobbler and the best fried chicken are good arguments to have with a friend, even though the questions themselves are about places rather than recipes.

A question you cannot answer can be skipped, but a skip does not count. Answering three is enough.

The pleasure of ranking is that it makes you think. Which of the three coffee places you like would you send a stranger to first? Which would you send them to on a rainy day? Putting the answer in order is a small act of judgment that most of us never make out loud, and in a Georgia town, where every cook has a loyal following, it is a fun one to make with friends around a table.

What does the title never depend on?

On what you say. The app is explicit that it never depends on what you say about a place, only on the work of rating, ranking and listing. That keeps the title honest: nobody earns it by praising everything, and nobody loses it by being candid. It also means that a business can neither ask for a title nor give one away.

There is no prize, discount, free meal or money attached.

Can you rate 5 places in your Georgia town?

The tools are built for towns as well as cities. Rate five places in your Georgia town and the app shows your progress toward the title. Meanwhile, the town guides give you meals to rate, such as the Macon breakfast guide or the Augusta barbecue guide.

If you travel for work or family, rate where you are. Every rating counts toward your own record, and the title follows the work.

Where does your private Top 3 list go?

Into a private list the app keeps for the town, with a section for each question. Only you see it. You may move a pick, swap it or leave a question blank until you have a view. When you share your title as a picture, the picture carries the title, not the list behind it.

What makes a good list for the third job?

A purpose and a few lines. Visiting cousins, a rainy Sunday, every plate lunch you tried one summer. If three or more places you rated share a tag, the app offers to turn them into a list for you, with every place ticked and the name open to change. Once made, it is an ordinary list that you can share by link.

What if you move house?

The title stays with the place where you earned it. Move across Georgia and you begin again there. Your ratings, your lists and your badges come with you.

How this works in the app: Local Champion and Top 3.

Start tonight: open the Mosey app, rate the last meal you ate and see how close you already are.