1. You are pushing an undefined value $random instead of $firstrandom
2. You are checking for string equality with == instead of cmp
3. There was a semicolon missing.

properly:

$firstrandom = $list1[rand @list1];
push @list2, $firstrandom;
$count = $#list1;
while ($count != 0) {    ###create list2
  $random = $list1[rand @list1];
  $ispresent = 'false';
  for $I (0..$#list2){        ##check to see if team is already in lis
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    if ($random == $list2[$I]) {
      $ispresent = 'true'
    };               
  };
  if($ispresent eq 'false') { ##if not add it to @list2
    push @list2, $random;
    $count--;
  };
};
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You are building a randomized version of @list1. The most efficient way of randomly shaking up a list like this is the Fisher-Yates shuffle:

Fisher-Yates (from the Perl Cookbook from O'Reilly):

# fisher_yates_shuffle( \@array ) : generate a random permutation
# of @array in place
sub fisher_yates_shuffle {
    my $array = shift;
    my $i;
    for ($i = @$array; --$i; ) {
        my $j = int rand ($i+1);
        next if $i == $j;
        @$array[$i,$j] = @$array[$j,$i];
    }
}

fisher_yates_shuffle( \@array );    # permutes @array in place
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