Tribe event category query

tribe-event query

<?php $terms = rwmb_meta( '', 'type=taxonomy&taxonomy=tribe_events_cat' ); ?>

<?php foreach ( $terms as $term ) { $ecat = $term->slug; $ename = $term->name; } ?>

<?php $efeed = new WP_Query( array( 
  	'post_type' 		=> 'tribe_events',
		'tribe_events_cat' 	=> $ecat, 
		'showposts' 		=> 5,
	));
?>

// Note: rmwb_meta is very similar to WP's get_post_meta   

tribe-event query 2

<?php $efeed = new WP_Query( array( 
      	'post_type' 		=> 'tribe_events',
    		'showposts' 		=> 5,
    		'tax_query' => array(
				array(
				'taxonomy' 	=> 'tribe_events_cat', 
				'field' => 'slug',
				'terms' => $ecat,
		
				)
			)
    	));
    ?>

The issue was the query was not pulling in child categories in version 1. Version 2 does.