Even if you make your own game variants, the default ("Custom") variant is always present and is selected as the default when you create a game. This variant makes no sense for a lot of UMS maps and leads to stupid shit like Nexus Wars being present twice in the popular list, with the "custom" variant defaulting to 5v3 teams. Since most people aren't going to bother changing the game category in the lobby the entire variant system is, at this point, since adding any other variant means at best the popularity score for your map will be split in half.
There needs to be a way to either 1) disable the default variant, 2) edit it, or 3) flag another one as default.
Even if you make your own game variants, the default ("Custom") variant is always present and is selected as the default when you create a game. This variant makes no sense for a lot of UMS maps and leads to stupid shit like Nexus Wars being present twice in the popular list, with the "custom" variant defaulting to 5v3 teams. Since most people aren't going to bother changing the game category in the lobby the entire variant system is, at this point, since adding any other variant means at best the popularity score for your map will be split in half.
There needs to be a way to either 1) disable the default variant, 2) edit it, or 3) flag another one as default.
@RileyStarcraft: Go
The best solution is to initially create the game using the variant you want.
If someone else decides to create the game and use the default variant though, then I guess there isn't anything you can do.