We also have to shout out our runner-up, Flashlight, which stuck around until the bitter end but only managed to get 15 percent of the vote in the final round.
After 31 days in the trenches of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge, Google Maps has emerged victorious! If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. Check out the full bracket of contestants and winners embedded below. And if you think we missed your personal favorite app of all time, yell at us in the comments.
Many of you likely never got a chance to even use Vine and other apps on the bracket that are discontinued didn’t make it far. For me, the biggest twists along the way were Venmo defeating Twitter and Evernote taking down Spotify. Damn, you guys really hate Spotify. I was also shocked to see Instagram eliminated by WhatsApp. It is physically impossible to get an American to read any news about WhatsApp, but I guess it has fans out there.
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