The thing here is that we get some profile updates over time also on things we do not witness firsthand. But the main point is no matter how the point awards are handled/manipulated in the first week, it is clear that the winner of the first game is considered the overall winner of the evening.You are misreading that message. It’s saying she narrowly lost the second game (ass-to-ass with either Rose or Felicia), and will be facing the final game (the cum tribute challenge); it does not state whether she won or lost that game. The reason it's different is because Edwin did not witness her during the game, so it just leaves it at his last awareness of her situation.
Maybe I'll have to go back through and see if it is brought up somewhere else, but I do not think it is ever mentioned that a Carnation lost the third game if you went to see Hana.
Why would they "take away" from the winner of the first game the chance to gain more points in the following rounds? These following rounds are literally called punishment rounds and Kath even tells them directly that the winner is lucky to not have to compete in the punishment rounds!
You cannot misread this. Also in the second week the competition is stacked towards a Rosi win, then a tie, another winner is possible, but we have to work to towards it. And if the tie happens, ALL of them are in the punishment round!
It is pretty obvious that that the winner of the first game in week 1 is considered the overall winner of the evening. and that Kath is manipulating the counting in any direction which keeps the games going on for a month without being too obvious. The week 2 stuff is weighted strongly towards a Rosi win, for example. She wins in 5 of the 9 possible outcomes of the photo shot and evening activities.
The game does not lie to you, it is simply you reading something into it that is not there! The two Carnation evenings so far showed the following: The winner is not in the punishment rounds as a victim, at the max she is the punisher of the others in week two. In a tie ALL are punished.The only thing I can comfortably say is that all three girls are even going into week 2; if not, then the game is straight-up lying to us.
So the winner of week one gets at least 2 points, because she is not in the punishment rounds, unable to gain points via it. So there is one Carnation in the lead after the first week. The other two might have one point each, but the 3 are not even going into week 2.