Didn't quite make it on Mintpal, but now with suncoin out of the way it may be easier..
Better luck tomorrow!
I've worked out that each altcoin that gets up in MintPal basically pays an auction bid of about 1-1.2 BTC on top of hourly votes to get to the top of the list. It's an expensive exchange to get listed in, given others are free. I've paid some BTC to try to get STY up (and so have others) but got caught last night right at the end because of time differences. I'm thinking: we keep doing hourly votes (STY is currently 21605) but let TakeiCoin (currently 27039) make it next. (They jumped ahead of STY cause they paid 1.33906 BTC). Then compete against Teslacoin (currently 12582) as they are further behind. Jumping ahead of TakeiCoin again will probably require a lot more BTC than staying ahead of Teslacoin . What do people think?