As begun in 2013, the top four finishers in the regular season of the league's ten teams participate in the double-elimination tournament held at Banner Island Ballpark in Stockton, California.
The winner of the event earns the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.
[1] The West Coast Conference was one of the few college baseball leagues not to conduct a postseason championship event until dividing into two divisions in 1999.
From that year through 2009, the league held a best of three game championship series between the two division winners.
Division play was abolished following the 2005 season, but the championship series continued with the top two finishers in the conference participating.