you might need custom scope for this; this link might help you do that – http://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/create-your-own-event-scope/
using ‘today’ in your search arguments won’t work, it needs actual dates. that’s why your shortcode doesn’t work.
angelo’s suggestion is pobably the only way if you need a specific range like this.
I have a lot of hockeymatches in the archive that I now delete. Then I only have matches from present season and then I can just use the “Past” setting.
I change the heading so I show the result of the match and then use it as a scoreboard.
So it is resolved. Thanks for your effort.