Nice write up and very interesting to hear. I don't have torrentleech but have heard that it is a bit difficult to seed so cross-seeding to get yourself started is a brilliant idea. Being a general tracker you should be able to find its torrents all over the public sphere.

TI's tracker reviews and and tracker list are great because they give you an indication of seeding difficulty. This is the first thing I look at with a new tracker so you can determine how you're going to tackle leeching and seeding. If it says moderate to hard I'm very careful with my downloads and try to concentrate on internal releases as these tend to be the most popular. The other thing is jumping onto a torrent as soon as it is uploaded. If a torrent has been up for a couple of days I ignore it like the plague.

A way you can solve all these issues and make life easier for yourself is to set up RSS or autodl-irssi. You should take a look at FAQ's and forums of your respective trackers to see how to get them setup. There's also some really nice and easy to follow tutorials here that you can refer to, obviously depending on which torrent client you are running.