Hello cudafunk,
Thanks for contacting us.
I wasn’t able to reproduce your issue. I followed the steps given and everything worked well; I was able to control the query limit from the widgets page.
The code is designed to accelerate the month if there are no events in the current month. As you have events in July I’m not yet sure how this would affect the code (I’d have to take a closer look). From what I can tell though, none of the code affects the query limit, so that should still be controlled by the widget.
My best guess is something is failing somewhere and all the defaults are being displayed (5 events from the current month).
Can you get me more code samples? A copy of your functions.php would be a good start, are you passing a month into Tribe_Advance_Minical()?
Does this make sense? Let me know if I can explain anything else!
Cheers!
– Casey Driscoll