According to the International Agreements, the mandate of the International Scientific Committee of the Canarian Observatories is to optimize the exploitation of the excellent astronomical conditions of the sites for all of the partners involved. As such, we realise each year that our teams participate at the highest level in many astronomical leagues. There is the every year more competitive Spanish League, the international leagues of optical-infrared astronomy and of solar physics, the emerging league of Cherenkov astronomy,... To summarise, the observatories are every year present in the final phases of the Champions League of Astrophysics. As during every season, several highlights have occurred, or have been published, in 2013 and some of them are described further in this issue.