how to conditionally add an image to events in a list

Hello,

I am trying to add a “hot” icon next to the #_EVENTLINK in the events list based on if that event has 4 or more ‘votes’ which I get from another plugin.

the voting mechanism is on the single event page

I rewrote some functions in the voting plugin to display a hot icon
with the shortcode “[hotornot]”

my problem is that event lists do not accept shortcode am I going about this the wrong way or is there a way to include this into the events list format?

this is what I have on my template page.

echo EM_Events::output(array('format'=>
'

<div id="list2">

<ul></br>    <HR>

</br>

<div style="float:left" margin-right:10px;"> #_CONTACTAVATAR</div>
    <div style="float:left"; margin-left:-15px;"><em>#_EVENTLINK </em></div>

<a href="#_EVENTURL">
<?php do_shortcode( "[hotornot]" ) ; ?>
</a>

  </br>
    <div style="margin-left:-15px;">
<li> <p>   <em> #_LOCATIONLINK </em> #_LOCATIONTOWN  </p></li>
</div>
<p><fb:like send="true" layout="button_count" width="150" show_faces="false" href="#_EVENTURL" ></fb:like>
 <a href="https://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a>
</p>

#_EVENTIMAGE{500,125}

<HR>
   </ul>
</div>
	', 'limit'=>6, 'pagination'=>1,'scope'=>'month', 'orderby'=>'event_start_date'));

This is my voting short code (which works on a single event page)

if(!function_exists('hot_or_not_shortcode')){
     function hot_or_not_shortcode($atts){
       global $post;
       return hot_or_not_display($post->ID);
}
   add_shortcode('hotornot', 'hot_or_not_shortcode');
}

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/