[Jack Jones]

As a robot inspector and referee for the past few years, I would have settled for “visible”, from somewhere. Many robots had their controllers buried. On the other hand, of the ones who did a good job of displaying the controller, very few had them facing the front. They had good reason not to face the electronics forward; that’s where most contact occurs. The smart ones had them facing the rear.

In any event, if they choose to define “front” for us when enforcing this rule. Then we’ll start the match facing backward (our backward-their forward). It’s no big deal.