Marinaro ? lol
they were buried in seniors when he competed with Purdy
aside from not so good looks, he needs better refinement, extension, expression and jumps
They won World silver in 2013. Deputat was 3rd in World Juniors in 2012 and 4th in World Juniors last year.
2013 was a depleted pairs field won by an American who have no success till now in seniors with P/M (aka the similar height pair) coming second because of F/M mistakes in the SP
Depleted field maybe, but that still doesn't change anything on the fact that Deputat was not even sent to those junior worlds...
I believe they withdrew from Jr. Nationals due to an injury to Vasilisa, but yes the point is that they weren't there
They could have got pass by their Federation, if they were that great. Some dancers got pass to junior worlds without attending junior nationals. This year Radionova also got pass to junior worlds without attending the nationals.