Perfect! sorted out what I needed to do listing the next three upcoming events, I hadn’t noticed it was sorting by the post date.
My code (has a div for the grid were using) just incase any use. Shows the next three events in upcoming order with the event manager dates.
[loop type=tribe_events count=3 image=featured_image clean=true eventDisplay=custom orderby=_EventStartDate]
<div class="col-lg-4">[block class=course-teaser]
[field image-link]
[h4][field title-link][/h4]
[field _EventStartDate date_format="F j Y"]
[p][field excerpt][/p]
[/block]</div>
[/loop]
