Hey Brad,
Unfortunately, the only way to pull this off is with some code customization. There are two methods I can think of: a more “formal” approach where modify the value directly in the templates, which can be achieved by creating theme overrides as per the instructions outlined in our Themer’s Guide → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/themers-guide/
A simpler alternative would be to sneak some custom JavaScript into the page and do it that way. We don’t offer support for writing custom code here on the forums…but if you’re interested in this, you’d basically just add some code like the following to your theme’s functions.php file:
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'tribe_994934_custom_js', 100 );
function tribe_994934_custom_js() {
?>
<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
if ( $('.tribe-events-tickets').length ) {
$('.tribe-events-tickets .quantity input.qty').val( '1' );
}
});
</script>
<?php
}
That works well for me and hopefully does for you, too.
Cheers!
George