The winners are certainly a potential threat to national (global?) security. What's the price of a celebrity status like that?
An open offer to work at the NSA?
You could ask how the other ctf defcon winners are regarded? The top teams are all pretty hardcore, I always felt they'd be treated specially as well but seems not to be the case
Won three times, definitely didn't hurt my career.
Look how well Edward Snowden was doing. Living in Hawaii and making $200k a year at his high point.