Local Champion in Oregon: Top 3 Questions Explained

Local Champion in Oregon is a title in the Mosey app for the person everyone in town asks when a cousin visits. You earn it in one town by rating five places, answering three Top 3 questions and making one list. It never depends on what you say about a place, so a blunt rating counts as much as a glowing one.

This page explains the three jobs in plain terms, with Oregon in mind, and says clearly what the title does not do. It sits inside the Oregon food guide for every town, and the US food guides cover the rest of the country.

What does Local Champion in Oregon ask of you?

Three things in one place. First, rate five places. Second, answer three Top 3 questions. Third, make one list. The app describes it as being a local champion for that town's food places, with the line "Rate places, name your top 3 and build your list." The title then appears on your profile and beside your name on a rating you write. You can also share it as a picture, with your first name on the card if you choose.

There is no prize. The title carries no discount, no free meal and no money, and a business cannot be given one or buy one.

How do the Top 3 questions work?

The app asks one question on each visit. Each asks where the best place is for something, such as coffee, a restaurant or brunch, and you pick up to three places and put them in order. Number 1 is your favorite, and the order is yours to change on a better day. You can skip a question you cannot answer, though a skip does not count, and answering three is enough for the title. Later questions bring other topics, among them pizza, burgers, pastries, date night, Italian, Mexican, bagels, sushi and value, one on each visit, so a newcomer can keep up without cramming.

Your answers are kept for you in a private list called My town top 3s, with the town named, so you can change your mind whenever you like. Nobody else sees it, and a skipped question stays empty until you have a view.

Which Oregon towns can you rate 5 places in?

The title is for a place, and the app decides which places it knows. The tools are written to work with towns as well as cities, but no page here can say which Oregon towns are ready, and none will claim a result for a town. Treat the whole thing as an invitation: open the app where you live or where you are visiting, and it will say whether the place is ready.

The town guides give you something to chew on while you wait, from the Corvallis coffee guide to the Salem day trip list.

How can you rate five places without a plan?

Let your week do it. A coffee on the way to work, a market lunch, a Friday pizza, a Saturday brunch and a Sunday ice cream are five different places by dinner time. For each the app needs the place and the stars. The dish, the tags, a photo and a few words are optional but valuable, because the dish is the part a stranger can act on.

How do you make a list in your town worth keeping?

Give it a purpose. A list for visiting parents, a list for rainy afternoons, a list of every cart you tried in one summer. Give each place a line on why it belongs. If you have rated three or more places that share a tag, the app can offer to turn them into a list for you, with every place ticked and the name editable. The finished list is an ordinary list; it does not update itself.

What happens to your title if you move?

The title belongs to the town where you earned it. Move across the state and you start again, which is a fair deal: knowing a place takes time. Your ratings stay yours, wherever you are.

Where do your private list of top 3 answers go?

They stay in the one private list the app keeps for that town, with a section for each question. You can reorder them, replace a pick, or leave a question empty until you have a view. Because the list is private, nobody sees a change until you decide to share the picture of your title, and even then the card shows the title rather than the list itself.

How does Local Champion sit with badges and friends?

They are separate and they work together. Badges climb by kind of place, starting at five different places in a category. Friends can follow you, tag you at the table and add their own rating of the same meal. A champion's title next to a badge tells a reader you have eaten widely and locally.

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

Get the Mosey app, rate five places in your Oregon town, answer three of the questions and start a list to earn the title.