It is a double-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records.

The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I softball tournament.

The top seven SLC softball teams participate in the tournament (barring NCAA sanctions).

Of the ten current members, only the University of New Orleans does not sponsor softball.

The tournament was not held from 1991 to 1995 and was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. source:[1] Current Southland members, as of the next NCAA softball season in 2025, in bold.