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Votes have now opened for the People's Choice award for the Bristol leg of the Chortle Student Comedy award.

The heat was won by Tom Gidman, a regular improv performer recently turned to stand-up.

Here is some of his set:

Now you can choose which of the other acts will go forward to a second vote to fill the two People's Choice places in the semi-finals. Polls close at 5pm on Wednesday.

The last vote, for the Brighton heat, was  won by University of Kent drama student Maddy Joy Willis, we can announce today.

The next heat is at Cardiff University student union tonight, and the first round concludes in Leeds on Tuesday.

And apologies to those awaiting the videos from the Southampton heat to go online. They should be live later this week.

This is the current state of play:

Heat winners

Heat on March 8 (Leeds)
Heat on March 7 (Cardiff)
Rachel Slater (Manchester)
Eric Rushton (Warwick)
Tom Gidman (Bristol)
Michael Odewale (Brighton)
Sean Gilbody (Southampton)
Lizzy Mansfield (Oxford)
Roya Shadmand (London)
Adam Mastroianni (Lincoln)
Hannah Rodgers (St Andrews)
James McIntosh (Glasgow)

People's choice winners

Heat on March 8 (Leeds)
Heat on March 7 (Cardiff)
Voting opens soon (Manchester)
Voting opens soon (Warwick)
Voting now on (Bristol)
Maddy Joy Willis (Brighton)
Voting opens soon (Southampton)
Yaseen Kader (Oxford)
Mary O'Connell (London)
Brian Morton (Lincoln)
Cody Dahler (St Andrews)
Chris Riley (Glasgow)

Published: 7 Mar 2016