Honestly, the Team Vareide maps weren't the best. They have awesome builders and have so much potential to make amazing maps, but they just... don't. They're not the best at understanding how to mix great buildings, terraforming and making the maps fun to play on.
This post just sums up everything I have on my mind.
Lets face it, Team Vareide has OKAY maps at best. Could I build any of the stuff they do? No. But, with the amount of amazing builders they have, I honestly should expect something amazing rather than being half disappointed when I play.
Also, I'm coming to a hypothesis that Team Vareide is going to be be what I like to call, "The Horror Movie Affect."
For those of you who have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, let me explain. Have you watched a really good horror movie, that actually scared you pretty good and you'd like to see a sequel? Then the sequel comes out, and it didn't get you as good, and you're satisfied with the series. But like idiots, the directors keep making more, and more, and more, and more movie sequels until all of the movies plain suck. (Examples, Jason series, Nightmare on Elmstreet, SAW) Team Vareide has been going down in quality with their maps, and SG6 better be something amazing before it's time to throw it in the bag.
In my opinion, the community maps will make a fine replacement. I think I heard Teweran left, which actually in my eyes is gonna be more of an impact than Vareide was. Those guys were some damn good map builders. But I think if we got another really good build team, and of course with the regular community maps, we'd do perfectly fine without his maps.
Nuff' Said.