Though the Seahawks didn’t win today, a team-inspired creation took top honors at tonight’s annual gingerbread-house-building competition at West Seattle Christian Church‘s Activity Center in The Junction. It’s a fast-paced event with dozens of builders deploying stacks of building components:

Some of the results had Christmas themes – like this message for Santa:

Others were timeless. Here’s a treehouse:

A beach scene …

And a Biblical scene – Noah’s Ark, in gingerbread:

Disclosure note – WSB co-publisher Patrick Sand helped judge again this year.