Sorry for the reply spamming. As the author of the only non-parser-game to have ever won IFComp - and which was only able to come close to doing so by mimicking parser games as closely as possible - this has ground my goat for whatever reason.
This isn’t untrue, but it’s a quite bizarre thing to believe, since IFComp winners are overwhelmingly lightly comic puzzly parser games. Maybe if you stopped pushing this myth, more of them would enter?