you probably want 
# untested
sub new {
    my $class= shift;
    my %args = @_;
    my $self = {map { ("_$_" => $args{$_}) }
      qw(roundnum room judge type code contestants)};
    bless $self, $class;
}

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and you have to call it like:
my $test=new round (roundnum=>1);
in your example you're calling roundum() with a hashref as an argument {roundum => 1}

update: and it's more common to use classnames with a first uppercase letter, just to distinguish it from pragmas (like strict, warnings, less etc.)
also a good starter for programming oo-perl is one of the perldoc pages, like perlboot, perltoot etc.

In reply to Re: OO Simple THing by tinita
in thread OO Simple THing by gpmartinson

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