March Mayhem over! Who won the title of “Top Travel Hacking tool”?

Over the past few weeks, I have been running a Travel Hacking March Mayhem.  We started off with 16 top tools (see Top 10 miles and points tools and the honorable mentions!).  Two weeks ago we had the 8 first round games

• Thursday March 17th – #1 Award Wallet vs. #16 Boingo Wifi and #6 Rome2Rio vs. #11 Check My Trip
• Friday March 18th – #8 FlyerMiler vs. #9 Seatguru and #2 Autoslash vs. #15 Osmand
• Saturday March 19th – #3 Google Flights / ITA Matrix vs. #14 Cashback Monitor and #5 Award Mapper vs. #12 Expert Flyer
• Sunday March 20th – #7 Hotel Hustle vs. #10 Flight Aware and #4 Airline Route Mapper vs. #13 The Flight Deal

and then the 2nd round games

• Thursday, March 24th – #12 Expert Flyer vs. #13 The Flight Deal
• Friday, March 25th – #3 Google Flights / ITA Matrix vs. #6 Rome2Rio
• Saturday, March 26th – #1 Award Wallet vs. #9 Seatguru
• Sunday, March 27th – #2 Autoslash vs. #10 Flight Aware

Then the semifinals

• Thursday, March 31st – #2 Autoslash vs. #3 Google Flights / ITA Matrix
• Friday, April 1st – #1 Award Wallet vs. #13 The Flight Deal

Leaving us with a “chalk” final of #1 Award Wallet vs. #2 Autoslash

The championship game

While our championship didn’t have QUITE the drama of the recent NCAA Men’s Basketball final game, we did have a bit of drama.  #2 Autoslash came out with an early lead in the votes, and even tried to get the votes out on social media!

Vote for @AutoSlash in the Travel Hacking March Mayhem championship! http://t.co/xGOn36RTOd @PointsWithACrew

— AutoSlash (@autoslash) April 3, 2016

#1 seed Award Wallet had been a runaway winner in all 3 of its previous games, and this one was no exception.  Despite falling behind in the votes early, Award Wallet came back with a 69% – 31% win to win the title of Top Travel Hacking tool!

Congratulations to Award Wallet!