Student award: Warwick poll opens | Have your say

Student award: Warwick poll opens

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

The heat was won by Eric Rushton, who is studying maths at the Coventry-based university.

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 midday on Sunday.

The last vote, for the Bristol heat, was  won Morgan Rees, we can announce today. He, too, is a maths student – at Cardiff – and won by a large margin.

The winners of the last two heats in the competition have automatically gone through to the semi-final. They are Jude Meyer of Cardiff, a third-time entrant in this competition, and Caitlin Powell, who is studying history of art at Worcester, who won the Leeds heat.

And apologies to those awaiting the videos from the Southampton heat to go online. This will be the next batch to made public for voting to start.

This is the current state of play:

Heat winners



Automatically in the semi-finals

Caitlin Powell (Leeds)
Jude Meyer (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

These will all go through to a second vote to determine who gets to the semis


Voting opens soon (Leeds)
Voting opens soon (Cardiff)
Voting opens soon (Manchester)
Voting now on (Warwick)
Morgan Rees (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: 10 Mar 2016

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