No need to be sorry about that. Last year another one organised the competition (partly?) so it may depend on the organiser where he/she draws the line.
We must remember that ParserComp was made to have a more specialised competition than IFComp. If we don't do something to control this, the ParserComp ends up being just another general IF competition. And IFComp and Spring Thing would gladly have accepted your game - it is clearly IF but (as I understand) not parser-IF though I haven't played your game yet so I wouldn't know.